[EM] Definition of _fully_ voting one candidate over another

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Mon May 31 10:24:01 PDT 2004


Mike,

 --- MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp at hotmail.com> a écrit : > 
> A voter fullly votes X over Y if s/he votes in such a way that if there were 
> an even number of voters, and half of them voted in that way, it would be 
> impossible for Y to be the unique winner, no matter how the other half vote.

In any method where if one candidate is the favorite of >=50% of the voters, no
other candidate can be the unique winner, it is going to be the case that fully
voting X over Y implies fully voting every candidate over Y, even candidates over
whom Y is fully voted.

For example, the ballot A>B>C fully votes B over C and also C over B.

Maybe you mean that if Y is a non-unique winner, then X must also be one.  In
that case fully voting X over anyone means that X is the ballot's strict favorite.
Maybe that is your intention?

Kevin Venzke
stepjak at yahoo.fr



	

	
		
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