[EM] Combatting the Burr dilemna

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 07:08 AM 11/17/2006, raphfrk at netscape.net wrote:
>I was originally thinking of something similar, where a candidate
>has to be in a voting pact that is approved by a majority.

A majority of what? By what means? Is it secret ballot? How is it 
determined who can vote?

If voters, by a majority, decide to vote a certain way, does this 
bind a minority to vote that way? I doubt it!

Yet the examples, consider, as performance on the promise, votes 
showing that a majority would *not* have approved the pact, unless 
possibly they wanted to deceive the majority.

Parties with secret ballot afterward, in real elections, resemble 
Free Associations in that they have no power to enforce discipline on 
the members. They can make decisions by majority vote -- this is what 
parties actually do -- and then, if they have not considered the 
minority, the minority simply ignores the party choice.