[EM] Alright, next try. Range voting fix, version 2.

[Scott Ritchie]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 18:40 -0800, rob brown wrote:
> Well, your example is not only a Condorcet cycle, but a pure 3-way tie
> in condorcet terms.
> 
> It is effectively:
> A>B>C
> B>C>A
> C>A>B

Then make it 5 A>B>C, 4 B>C>A, and 3 C>A>B, and watch the same thing
happen.

> 
> So, no condorcet method could resolve it either as anything but an
> out-and-out tie. (right?)  I would not expect this to do so either --
> at least not in its simplest implementation.  In fact, I'm pretty
> happy that it indeed met my prediction of behaving similarly to
> condorcet methods, in that it gets stumped on the same data sets. :) 
> 

Your method IS a Condorcet method.  If there is a Condorcet winner, and
your method doesn't select him in one round, then a majority of voters
can have their threshold altered such that he wins.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie