Dave Ketchum said: > Perhaps some are losing sight of the goal, which is to decide which > candidate shall get elected. > > In preparing to vote we can think of all the issues. But then we need > to sort out which candidate(s) seem to best fit our desires, putting > weight on the various issues according to how we rate them.
Good point. If we expect the electoral system engineers to do the hard work of designing the "best possible" system that will deduce an appropriate winner from the set of individual preferences, the least we can ask of the citizens is that they resolve their personal cycles and come up with a linear ranking before entering the voting booth. But the question of whether a rational individual can have cyclic preferences is still interesting from an academic standpoint. Alex ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
