[EM] Margins vs. Winning Votes

[Eric Gorr]

Dave Ketchum wrote:

> Remember that the topic is ties, rather than splitting up a district 
> with a fixed quantity of real voters.  The district could have had 3000 
> real voters in 2 groups of 1500 or 3 groups of 1000 - or whatever made 
> the desired example.

I fail to see the significance of these examples. Pretend, for the 
moment, that the odd voter did not exist and the election ended in a 
genuine tie.

I fail to see how a randomly selected winner (the most common tie 
resolution method) could be any better or worse then a single voter 
casting the deciding ballot...which is another common tie resolution 
method and used in the U.S. Senate, for example.

It is quite beyond me why anyone would find this odd should it occur in 
a genuine election.