[EM] Uncountable Ballot
Adam Tarr
atarr at purdue.edu
Wed May 7 00:03:02 PDT 2003
Josh Narins wrote:
> > > ex.
> > > A B C D
> > > / -------------
> > > A | x B A D
> > > B | B x C B
> > > C | A C x C
> > > D | D B C x
> > >
>
>On this individual ballot, there is this cycle...
>A beats C, C beats D, D beats A
>so it certainly can't be represented as a ranked ballot, so can not be
>counted with the methods that I have ever heard of.
I see no reason why these ballots couldn't be summed and evaluated using a
standard Condorcet method such as ranked pairs.
-Adam
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