[EM] Re: SARC definition improvement

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Just a friendly reminder of the underlying problem when there are ANY choices.

1. A choice does or does not have simple majority acceptablity (in a simple 
YES/NO vote).  Obviously, none, 1, 2, or 3 or more will get YES majorities.
YES/NO matrix

2. A choice does or does not beat each other choice head to head using number 
rank votes (1, 2, etc.).
Head to Head matrix

3. A choice does or does not get the earliest majority using accumulated 
place votes (1st place votes plus 2nd place votes plus etc using the number 
rank votes).
Place votes matrix.

Thus, if 3 or more choices get YES majorities and there is no Condorcet 
winner in a Head to Head matrix, there are problems for many methods if 3 is 
not used as a tiebreaker.

I continue to note---

Majority > Minority

Sorry minority folks but you lose the election for single winner offices.

As usual, I note that the adding (or removing) of sincere/ insincere 
majority/ minority votes is ballot box stuffing (or ballot theft) while 
looking at the remaining ballots (violation of the secret ballot) is a cute 
little internet game but highly criminal in real elections for real 
candidates (and issues).

An election method works on ALL of the ballots (and NOT on some of the 
ballots).