Successive votes for tie breaker

Steve Eppley seppley at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Aug 9 10:59:13 PDT 1996


DEMOREP1 wrote:
>      A   B   C   D
>  A  --  AB  AC  AD  AT1
>  B  BA  --  BC  BD  BT1
>  C  CA  CB  --  CD  CT1
>  D  DA  DB  DC  --  DT1
>
>Assume that the CT1 total is the highest. 
>Should C be first using the total votes-for tie breaker? 
>
>(Note to Mr. Ossipoff- the highest total votes-for is the
>*criteria* and the *property* and whatever else are your tests for a
>tie breaker)

Maximizing total of votes-for isn't important to me.  Like Copeland,
this method violates other criteria which I consider more important,
like Independence from Twins, GMC, LOE, etc. 

---Steve     (Steve Eppley    seppley at alumni.caltech.edu)




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