FARCS stands for Fictitiously Assumed Rankings Criteria System.
Because no FARCS advocate on EM has defined FARCS, Im going to define it in this posting.
Definition of FARCS, consisting of instructions for writing a criterion failure example in the FARCS system:
1. Specify a set of voter rankings that complies with the criterions premises stipulations about rankings.
2. Specify each voters actual vote (using the actual balloting system of the method being tested) in such a way that s/he doesnt vote X over Y when your ranking for that voter ranks Y over X.
3. If you can thereby specify actual votes that give a result that doesnt comply with the criterions requirement, then you have written a successful failure example.
[end of FARCS definition] Mike Ossipoff
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