[EM] Margins vs. Winning Votes

[Paul Kislanko]

Eric Gorr wrote in response to Dave Ketchum:


> 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.

How does this relate to the original question in the thread. Dave Ketchum
wrote something that was not relevant, and now we're talking about randomly
selected winners.

This is why I doubt EM folks will ever be able to convince anybody of the
correct-ness of their opinions. Nobody can ever stay on topic.