[EM] Re: paradigms...

[Rob Brown]

I will give you that your example demonstrates that if your choices alone were 
to decide the outcome, a system that only ranks the candidates can be somewhat 
insufficient.

However, let's assume that the ranking system in question allows you to, 
rather than flipping a coin, simply rank A and B equally.  In other words, 
declare them a tie.

Now, since your ballot is *not* the only one that decides the outcome, the 
other voters will make your decision between A and B for you, exactly as you 
wished.

It does what you want, only in a far more straightforward way.  Instead of 
allowing you to vote for a choice based on the votes of others, it simply 
allows you to defer to others things that you would rather not decide yourself.

It is almost like you are insisting that you be able to explicitly vote for 
whoever wins, rather than just not vote.  What is the point?