[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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