[Election-Methods] Challenge: Elect the compromise

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Abd ul-Rahman,
> Jobst, you misread Steve. He said what you intended. He assumed that, 
> essentially, 20 was much less than 80.

Yes, you're probably right. I have clarified what the intended interpretation is, anyway.

> There are, I believe, ways to improve the performance of Range, and, 
> as it happens, the one I've been proposing also makes Range MC 
> compliant in the overall method, including a possible runoff. 
> Obviously, Range *cannot* be MC compliant directly, for it can pass 
> over the favorite of a majority, when this is only by a relatively 
> small preference strength, to elect a stronger preference of a 
> minority. 

Range *is* a majoritarian method since a majority can elect whomever it wants by bullet voting.

> Given that I don't "believe" in measurable utility, am I an "other"?

Yes, and I ask you to understand the given example in the second way.

Yours, Jobst
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