Truncation with Condorcet

Blake Cretney bcretney at my-dejanews.com
Sat Aug 8 18:35:33 PDT 1998


 Oops!  I made a mistake in my example.  It doesn't
change my argument, however.

On Fri, 07 Aug 1998 23:28:54   Blake Cretney wrote:

>Now here's what happens if they vote sincerely and 
>truncate
>
>48 A
>23 B A C
>29 C B A
>       A    B    C
>  A    X    48   71
>  B    52   X    23
>  C    29   29   X
>
>Max loss
>       52   48   71
>B wins
The 48 for B is not a loss.  B's real biggest loss is
with 29 votes against.  B of course still wins.


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