Fwd: [EM] Query for Approval advocates

[Kislanko at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/9/03 3:57:40 PM Central Daylight Time, eric at ericgorr.net 
writes:

>B *IS* preferred by a majority over both A & C
Only in pairwise compaisons between B<>A, and B<>C. But that wasn't the 
election.

>In the contest between B & A, only 85 people choose to participate. 
>Of those 85, > 50% preferred B.
The voters were not choosing to participate in pairwise comparisons between 
each pair of candidates. They were TRYING to express their prefences. There was 
no "contest between B & A". There was an election that involved A, B, and C. 

>In the contest between B & C only 65 people choose to  participate. 
>Of those 65, > 50% preferred B.
Again, there was no contest between B & C.

>I can see no reason to count those people who had no opinion in these 
>contests and elected not to participate in them. They wanted no 
>voice, so they didn't get any

If 70 of 105 voters prefer somebody other than B. I cannot see why anyone 
would claim B has "majority" support.


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