Typo

Mike Ossipoff dfb at bbs.cruzio.com
Thu Oct 17 00:53:00 PDT 1996


In my 2nd bad-example for Young's method (which measures defeats by
margin-of-defeat), I mis-wrote the rankings. I meant to say:

Actual rankings:

41: Dole
20: Clinton
29: Nader, Clinton

(In the initial posting, I left Clinton out of the Nader voters'
rankings).

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Also, when I stated the basic democratic principle:

If a full majority of the voters indicate that they'd rather
have A than B, then if we choose A or B, it should be A.

...I meant to say, after that, that Condorcet(EM) is the
only method that will never unnecessarily violate that
basic democratic principle. And that the requirment to ;never
unnecessarily violate that principle results in a reqirment
to meet GMC, the Generalized Majority Criterion. These requirements
are met by no method but Condorcet(EM).

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Mike Ossipoff


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