[EM] Approval Vote: 99% isn't enough
David Catchpole
s349436 at student.uq.edu.au
Sun May 28 16:58:10 PDT 2000
Whoa. Pareto. I'm impressed. Not.
On Sun, 28 May 2000 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
> research at ijs.co.nz asked me to forward yet another Approval example. Respond
> to him and not me.
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> research at ijs.co.nz----
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> Here is an improved example:
>
>
> 99 ABCDEFGHIJ
> 1 J
>
>
> Total Votes = 100
> Number of Candidates = 10
> Approval Vote internal counts: A:(B..I):J = 99:99:100
> Approval Vote winner: J
> Candidate A has 99% of the first preference votes and loses
> Candidate J has 1% of the first preference votes and wins
>
>
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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
>From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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