[EM] Approval Vote: 99% isn't enough

[David Catchpole]

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
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> 
> 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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