[EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?
    Bart Ingles 
    bartman at netgate.net
       
    Tue Jun 24 21:45:02 PDT 2003
    
    
  
Dave Ketchum wrote:
>
>   > Imagine these as the SENTIMENTS (these are not ballots) of the voters:
>   > 49 A>>>>B>C
>   > 2 B>>A>>>C (doesn't really matter)
>   > 49 C>>>>B>A
>   >
>   > The Condorcet ballots arising from the above sentiments:
>   > 49 A>B>C
>   > 2 B>A>C
>   > 49 C>B>A
>   >
>   > Please do not reply to this by pointing out that no one ranks B last.
>   > That is indeed a useful fact, but it has nothing to do with utility.
> 
> Perhaps this collection of votes has been asked to carry a bigger burden
> than it is capable of:
>         Condorcet does not support expressing the detailed sentiments that
> are imagined above.
Indeed, Condorcet is a bit limited, isn't it?
    
    
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