[EM] Cycles in sincere individual preferencesandapplication to vote-collection

[Adam Tarr]

>" Give one vote for the top candidate(s) over every lower candidate(s).
>Scratch off the top candidate(s)
>repeat until the ballot is exhausted.
>
>What else is there to prove...?"

>Well, not sure what you "proved", but as you described it either you elected
>the losing-est candidate or you said Borda was right.

Huh?  All I did was explain the actual process of filling out a pairwise 
matrix using ranked ballots.  The question of whether this is valid or not 
goes back to whether all preferences are transitive.  I take that to be 
axiomatic, you do not.

-Adam