I notice that the margins vs winning-votes issue has come up yet again. For anyone who is interested in the pro-margin position, you can see my discussion at the following web page.
http://condorcet.org/rp/inc.shtml My program for calculating Ranked Pairs can be used from the following page. It only does margins. http://vote.sourceforge.net/rpweb/rpweb.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Cretney http://condorcet.org Ranked Pairs gives the ranking of the options that always reflects the majority preference between any two options, except in order to reflect majority preferences with greater margins. (B. T. Zavist & T. Tideman, "Complete independence of clones in the ranked pairs rule", Social choice and welfare, vol 6, 167-173, 1989) ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
