[EM] 05/16/02 - More Code Words:

[Michael Rouse]

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From: "richard moore" <rmoore4 at cox.net>
To: <election-methods-list at eskimo.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [EM] 05/16/02 - More Code Words:
> Donald wrote:
> > 05/16/02 - More Code Words:
> > There is a code word term that includes the words `majority and winner'.
> >
> > The term `true majority winner' are code words meaning that Approval
Voting
> > is to be the standard to examine an election method and that the
Approval
> > winner would be the `true majority winner' regardless of the fact that
it
> > is mathematically impossible for any candidate to have a majority of the
> > votes when the voters cast two or more votes each.
>
> Donald,
>
> I find it interesting that, in your code book, nouns
> always seem to stand for complete sentences.
>
> Can you cite a message in the list archives where
> the phrase "true majority winner" was used, so
> we can confirm what you are saying? As far as
> I can tell, this phrase could only mean "majority
> winner", and I don't know what context it occurred
> in where "true" could have changed the meaning.
...
>  -- Richard


I did a Google search for "true majority winner," and it seems to be mainly
used by IRV advocates to describe the candidate chosen by Instant Runoff
Voting, not by Approval advocates. In fact, it even shows up on what appears
to be Donald's own site at http://www.mich.com/~donald/single.html, in which
case he might be correct about what "true majority winner" really means,
just not on who is claiming it.

Mike Rouse
mrouse at cdsnet.net


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