[EM] majority winner and range & condorcet methods

Chris Benham chrisbenham at bigpond.com
Wed Oct 5 08:29:35 PDT 2005


This from Warren Smith (Tue.Oct.4):

> Robla failed to mention that range voting *does* obey a weakened form of
>the majority-winner criterion (call it "WMW").  Specifically:
>    "If a strict majority of the voters regard X as their unique favorite, then
>   they, acting alone without regard to what the other voters do, can force his election."
>I don't know about you, but I personally regard WMW as a more-desirable critrion for
>a voting system to obey, than Anderson 1994's MW criterion. 
>
Warren,
Are there any  methods actually  *fail*  this criterion?   Borda perhaps?


Chris  Benham





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