[EM] Relevance of Consistency

[Forest Simmons]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Blake Cretney wrote in part:


> Similarly, an IRV supporter might declare that there is only a definite
> group opinion when there is a first-place majority winner.


I would be delighted if I could find an IRV supporter that admitted that a
first place majority winner has a greater mandate than someone who wins by
a majority of transferred votes.

The greatest value of the Consistency Criterion in this context is its
potential for waking up IRV supporters to the fact that a majority of
transferred votes is not so decisive after all.

Forest


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