[EM] Majorities (was Re: Smith//PC , GSFC, & SDSC)

DEMOREP1 at aol.com DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Sat Oct 7 20:49:03 PDT 2000


Mr. Ossipoff wrote-

In general, any example that complies with the premise of a
criterion, and in which the method being tested doesn't meet the
requirement of the criterion will be sufficient to show that that
method fails the criterion. Also, such an example is necessary to show
that. In fact, that's what it takes to show that any method fails
any criterion. For more detail, I refer you to the definitions of
the criteria.

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D- How many criterion (criteria) (such as Majority Rule) fail one or more 
method(s) ???   Which fails first - a criterion or a method ???  Or, how many 
divided majorities are there ??? 1 or a zillion ???

One poll indicates -

26 AB
25 BA
49 C

100

What is a poor minority C voter to do ???

Another election poll indicates- 

35 DEF
34 EFD
31 FDE

100

Is a clone a choice that is beaten head to head by a majority ???

Adding G (who is happens to be a 100 percent clone of F) -

35 DEFG
34 EFGD
31 FGDE

Some voters may actually vote G before F. 

If a majority vote G before F, then is F now the clone of G ???

I bring up the above stuff since elections have been mystified almost beyond 
belief on this list for many moons (years) with the zillion ABC to XYZ 
criteria (almost as bad as the various mystical dogmas of the various 
mystified religions). 

The elementary majority rule notion also applies in p.r. elections-- can ANY 
majority of the voters elect a number of legislators who have a majority of 
the voting power in the legislative body involved ??? (which is why p.r. 
election math for legislative bodies is very closely related to single winner 
election math for executive and judicial offices).`



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