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... :-)



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