Bad Condorcet winners?
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Thu Mar 15 14:46:02 PST 2001
Mr. Layton wrote --
A Bad Condorcet winner is a low utility Condorcet winner. For those who see
the primary purpose of election methods to elect the highest utility
candidate, and see voters as rational utility maximisers, this is a
crucially important flaw.
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D- I repeat my elementary example using the plus 100 to minus 100 utility
scale--
2 A ( 1) B (-100)
1 B (100) A (-100)
Guess who wins regardless of his/her *low* utility.
It is not *average* utilities that are important.
The above can be expanded to an extreme Hitler/Washington/ Stalin Condorcet
example ---
49 H (100) W ( 1) S (-100)
1 W ( 1) H (-99) S (-100)
49 S (100) W ( 1) H (-100)
99
Using Condorcet, W wins (barely).
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