[EM] The resolute model?

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Markus--

You said:

Well, you haven't even answered my question which model you use. Your
2 March 2005 mail ("[EM] Kevin, 2 March, '5, 1425 GMT") suggests that
you use the resolute model. (The "resolute model" says that for every
possible profile the winner is determined in advance.) However, your
3 March 2005 mail ("[EM] No, Random Candidate doesn't meet FBC (as of
now)") suggests that you don't use the resolute model.

I reply:

Markus, I´d be glad to answer your question about whether I use the resolute 
model, and I want you to know that I have not intentionally declined to 
answer it. But I could answer your question better if you would define the 
resolute model better than you have.

But, based on how you state the resolute model, I suggest that the United 
States uses the resolute model in its choice of president: For every 
possible profile [of ballots] the winner is chosen in advance. Certainly 
that appears to have been so in 2004.

In other words, the winner is chosen in advance, and that advance-chosen 
winner will win, for any profile of ballots.

Our U.S. elections use the resolute model. So my answer to your question is 
"Yes". We use the resolute model. But, as for whether I personally use it, 
I´d have to say "No", because I have no role in that advance-choice of the 
winner. I´m just one of those who participate in voting that profile of 
ballots, which does not choose the winner.

Mike Ossipoff

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