Tyranny of the Majority
Martin Harper
mcnh2 at cam.ac.uk
Mon May 7 10:26:34 PDT 2001
DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
> Mr. Harper wrote in part-
>
> 100 A >> B > C
> 100 C >> B > A
> 1 B > A = C
> ----
> D- I again suggest a simple YES or NO vote on each choice.
>
> Who, if anybody, in the example could get a YES majority ???
The ">>" corresponds to the divide between YES and NO, in the usual way,
so A and C get 100 YES, 101 NO, while B gets 1 YES, 200 NO.
Sorry, I forget that not everyone automatically thinks in terms of
dyadic votes... :-)
More information about the Election-Methods
mailing list