[EM] Preferences are not transitive

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Mike,

you wrote (14 Feb 2004):
> You told me that it doesn't matter what "preference"
> means, as long as it means something that is ordered
> and transitive. But preference needn't be transitive.

Yes, individual preferences needn't be transitive. That's
why I explicitly presume that they are transitive ("It is
presumed that each voter casts at least a partial ranking
of all candidates. However, it is not presumed that each
voter casts a complete ranking."):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/files/nmciswem.pdf

Markus Schulze