My replies below resulted from mistakenly believing that Jameson was referring to preference criteria in general, when, actually, he was referring to his one or two preference criteria that he'd proposed in a recently previous posting:
J: Let's forget about those criteria [endquote] M: Suit yourself, Jameson. J: , because apparently the fact that they are bad criteria is distracting from the issue here. [endquote] M: Jameson pronounces them "bad criteria" :-) M: So make that claim, Jameson needs to be specific about what he thinks is wrong with those criteria, and why. Yes, certainly Jameson's one or two criteria in the previous post were "bad", because they weren't defined. He didn't say what he meant by "votes for A". The best guess for what that means is "marks A on a Plurality-style ballot". 1. That would mean that Jameson's criterion only applies to a limited subset of methods. 2. There could be a count rule that says that the candidate with the fewest Plurality-style marks wins. 3. But Jameson didn't specify that, or any other meaning for "votes for A". Additionally, a reasonable guess about what that term means, all methods would fail the criterion, making the criterion not useful. Mike Ossipoff ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info