[EM] Bucklin
Alex Small
asmall at physics.ucsb.edu
Tue Apr 6 16:39:02 PDT 2004
Rob LeGrand said:
> Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never
> posted until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which
> candidate should win the following Bucklin election?
>
> 25:Brown>Jones>Davis>Smith
> 26:Davis>Smith>Brown>Jones
> 49:Jones>Smith>Brown>Davis
Well, since it's Bucklin the winner would be Smith. That's an objective
question. But if you ask who "should" win on some sort of political or
social grounds, that question is usually method-independent, since your
answer to that question will determine which method you like.
Alex
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