[EM] Re: Winning-votes intuitive?

Alex Small asmall at physics.ucsb.edu
Thu Feb 21 19:25:47 PST 2002


Forest Simmons wrote:

>> 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.

Why not go one step further and give voters more flexibility?  Simply ask
them to give each candidate a rank, and also a yes/no.  The ballot wouldn't
be all that much more complicated.  Then they could participate in every
pairwise contest if they so wish and also specify their approval cut-off if
no Condorcet winner exists.

Alex Small



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