[EM] DH3 pathology, margins, and winning votes

[mrouse1 at mrouse.com]

In your example of 3 main rival candidates (A, B, C) and one dark horse
candidate (D), you said that range voting prevented the dark horse from
winning. Graphically speaking, there would be a triangle formed by the
three main candidates , while the dark horse would lie somewhere outside
of it.

My question is, what if the dark horse candidate is in fact a compromise
candidate (i.e. his position D is inside the triangle formed by ABC)? In
this case, he might truly be second choice on all the ballots without
being first choice on any of them.

Michael Rouse
mrouse1 at mrouse.com