[EM] The Coming California Single Seat Election

[Eric Gorr]

At 4:07 PM -0700 8/19/03, Forest Simmons wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Adam Tarr wrote:
>
>>
>>  Well, I don't think that's what Donald wants.  Moreover, it seems absurd to
>>  give an individual voter the ability to submit an ambiguous ballot.  Cyclic
>>  ties can make sense for an electorate, but they can't make sense for a sane
>>  individual.
>
>Suppose that the (only, as far as you are concerned) issues, i1, i2, and
>i3, are equally important to you, and that (in your opinion) candidate A
>beats candidate B on two out of three, candidate B beats candidate C on
>two out of three, and candidate C beats candidate A on two out of three:
>
>i1: A>B>C
>i2: B>C>A
>i3: C>A>B
>
>Why would you be insane to say that you prefer A to B to C to A?

Because the real-world simply does not work the way described here.
Nothing, in these matters, is ever exactly equal or symmetrical.