[EM] Center for Range Voting Formed

[Eric Gorr]

Abd ulRahman Lomax wrote:
> At 08:25 PM 8/11/2005, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> 
>> However, the Condorcet winner criterion is quite easily and
>> unambiguously applied to Range Voting ballots, since a ranked ballot can
>> be easily derived from a Range Voting ballot.
> 
> 
> What do you do with candidates with equal ratings?

If a voter has a range ballot like:

a: 99
b: 50
c: 50
d: 0

This would be equivalent to the ranked ballot:

   a > b = c > d

Every Condorcet resolution method can handle a ballot where two or more 
candidates are ranked the same and locating the Condorcet Winner, if one 
exists, is unaffected.




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