Manoj said: > Oh, as a sponsor of the GR, I suppose I should clarify that I > am not going to accept this amendment; I consider it a bad one. This > makes our vote method fail the monoticity criteria > (http://www.electionmethods.org/evaluation.htm). See Scenario 2 below. > > > I'll present two (perhaps contrived, but failing to make > quorum is not a very usual scenario in any case). > > > Scenario A: > Suppose the tech ctte has 10 members, and is trying to vote on > the rainbow vote. The quorum is 4. (If you recall, the rainbow vote > had 10 options). > > All 10 members vote -- and they all like like different > colors, except that two people like red. Most are indifferent about > the colors they did not chose, but they do not feel they should win > -- and express their preferences by either only voting for the color > of their choice. > > In my version, since no option got the needed 4 votes, there > is no winner. > > In this amendment, red wins -- even though only 2 of the 10 > people voted for it (less than the quorum of 4). Red won, even though > 8 out of 10 people did not want to see it as winner.
This is inaccurate. With this amendment, no options are excluded by quorum. However, the default option actually *beats* red here. (2 people prefer red to the default, while 8 people prefer to the default to red.) The default option in fact is the Condorcet winner and will win. --Nathanael
