Revealing the Majority Winner

David Marsay djmarsay at dera.gov.uk
Wed Nov 11 05:44:43 PST 1998


Bart Ingles wrote:

> If the first choice doesn't mean more than lower choices, why do we all
> seem to agree that a candidate with 50.1% of the first choice vote
> should win over someone with 100% of the second choice vote?

Because the candidate with > 50% of 1st choices beats every other 
candidate in pair-wise comparisons?

Dave 
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