[EM] A four bit (sixteen slot) range style ballot

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Fri Jun 11 00:54:00 PDT 2010


Hi Abd,

--- En date de : Jeu 10.6.10, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com> a écrit :
> One of the common complaints about Bucklin is that it can
> fail the Majority Criterion, but this only happens if more
> than one candidate gains a majority.

It also only happens if you don't use a rank ballot. If voters aren't
asked to compress preferences into limited slots then there's no basis
to say Bucklin fails Majority.

Kevin Venzke


      



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