Kevin said:
Mike:
Say a voter refuses to express a preference between X and Y. Anyone who says that that voter is saying that s/he prefers X to Y, and that s/he also prefers Y to X, must have their head all the way up their ass.
It's not necessarily saying that.
I reply:
So you agree that you're modifying the ranking to say something that the voter didn't say, but you say that that isn't a falsification of preferences.
You continued:
The idea is that the effect should be the same.
I reply:
So you're saying that the effect should be the same after you attribute to the voter preferences that the voter didn't express.
Mike Ossipoff
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