[EM] Issues, Condorcet, and IRV (was: IRV vs. plurality)

[Eric Gorr]

At 10:47 AM -0400 8/13/03, James Green-Armytage wrote:
>Eric Gorr writes:
>>If a voter sets the cutoff in the wrong spot and approves and option
>>they really did not want to see win, but then causes that option to
>>win, they have made the result worse from their point of view.
>
>I don't think so, assuming that they will also be approving all of the
>candidates whom they like better than that candidate. So the addition of
>their ballot won't help the less-liked candidate beat any of the
>more-liked candidates -- it will be neutral in that regard. Thus it will
>make the outcome neither better nor worse from their point of view.

Who says it was less-liked by the majority of the population?

We are talking about only a few voters or even just a single voters 
point of view.

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