[EM] Majority Criterion poor standard for elections

[Chris Benham]

Simmons, Forest wrote:

>It seems to me that if there is a majority winner, then she should at least have a chance of winning.  What if we chose by random ballot from among all of the candidates that have a majority beat path to the Range winner (with a final approval vote to ratify this choice)?
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Why not just "automate" that and with one trip to the polls elect the 
winner of the pairwise comparison between the Range winner and a 
randomly chosen candidate with a beatpath to the Range winner, to make a 
pretty terrible method  (but still better than Range) with a strong 
random element?

Chris  Benham