Hello. I've been reading lots of messages on this
list for a week or so, and I decided it would be good
to join it. I can ask questions even if my own ideas
are not generally interesting.
I've always been interested in organization of
government (esp. comparative), but I've only recently
become
Adam Tarr wrote:
Tom McIntyre Wrote:
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
101: A
50: BAC
100: CBA
About 60% of the voters have indicated that they'd rather elect
B than A. And so margins elects A.
WV counts, keeps, & honors the B>A majority. A has a majority defeat that
wv doesn't lose or erase. With m
I'd said:
101: A
50: BAC
100: CBA
About 60% of the voters have indicated that they'd rather elect
B than A. And so margins elects A.
WV counts, keeps, & honors the B>A majority. A has a majority defeat that
wv doesn't lose or erase. With margins, what happens to that majority
against A? Ma
Here is a simpler example to illustrate the difference that the order in which
cyclic and reversal terms are canceled does not matter when using the strictly
correct method - as opposed to the method used by Forest Simmons and Alex
Small, and in some of Saari's popular expositions where he is me
Forest Simmons said:
> It seems to me that any neutral method that gives a three way tie to a
> reverse order pair (like the following ballot pair) cannot satisfy both
> Pareto and the strong FBC:
>
> 1 A>B>C
> 1 C>B>A .
>
> Here's my reasoning. Suppose that there are only two voters and one has
>
I wrote:
Let's take another example:
101: A
1: BAC
101: CBA
In this case, B defeats A 102>101, A defeats C 102>101, and C defeats
B 101>1 (with 101 abstaining). B>A and A>C are victories by majority,
but very weak victories. C>B is a non-majority win, but a resounding
victory. Just to ge
Adam Tarr wrote:
Tom McIntyre Wrote:
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
101: A
50: BAC
100: CBA
About 60% of the voters have indicated that they'd rather elect
B than A. And so margins elects A.
WV counts, keeps, & honors the B>A majority. A has a majority defeat
that wv doesn't lose or erase. With marg
I see only the list when I reply-to-all.
More often than not my primitive input to this list really only merits a
comment to the post author, and not to the list itself.
Take, for example, this post :)
> -Original Message-
> From: Adam Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, Feb
Tom McIntyre Wrote:
101: A
50: BAC
100: CBA
About 60% of the voters have indicated that they'd rather elect
B than A. And so margins elects A.
WV counts, keeps, & honors the B>A majority. A has a majority defeat that
wv doesn't lose or erase. With margins, what happens to that majority
agains
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
101: A
50: BAC
100: CBA
About 60% of the voters have indicated that they'd rather elect
B than A. And so margins elects A.
WV counts, keeps, & honors the B>A majority. A has a majority defeat
that wv doesn't lose or erase. With margins, what happens to that
majority agai
Blake has recently recommended his margins arguments to us, and so
for that reason I'd like to reply to them here. I realize that all of
these arguments have already been replied to here more than once.
Because Blake's arguments are very long, I'd like to copy part of
my reply to the beginnin
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