Winning-votes intuitive?

Forest Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Thu Feb 21 19:01:21 PST 2002



On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> Adams latest example-
> 
> 49: Bush
> 12: Gore, Bush
> 12: Gore, Nader
> 27: Nader,Gore
> 
> Bush beats Nader 61-39
> Nader beats Gore 27-24
> Gore beats Bush 51-49
> ---
> D-  Now there is a circular tie.
> 
> Again- who, if anybody, has a YES majority ???
> 
> 

Bush and Gore do, if we interpret truncations as NO and ranked as YES.

This time Bush wins, having greater approval than Gore.

I suggest that this is a reasonable interpretation, and that the resulting
version of Approval Completed Condorcet is not too shabby.


Forest



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