[EM] IRV's "majority winner". What if we let the people choose?

James Green-Armytage jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Sun May 16 12:51:01 PDT 2004


Curt Siffert <siffert at museworld.com> writes:
>Honestly, though, I don't believe the 3/49/48 scenario would ever 
>happen in a political election.  For a candidate to have gathered 
>enough support to even compete in an election, he or she would have to 
>have a significant amount of first-place supporters.

Well, actually what I think is more unlikely about that classic example is
that anyone with only 3% of first choice votes would be a totally
unanimous choice for second choice. In general, it seems unlikely for any
candidate to be either the first or second choice of every single voter. 

James




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