[EM] Forest example

fsimmons at pcc.edu fsimmons at pcc.edu
Thu Dec 15 17:53:25 PST 2011


> From: MIKE OSSIPOFF 
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> Subject: [EM] Forest: The example. Jameson: SODA
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> Forest:
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> I find nothing wrong with electing C in the example below, 
> unless someone can point out
> a strategy problem.
> 
> 33 A
> 17A=C
> 17B=C
> 33 B
> 
> Of course I also find nothing wrong with an A,B tie there either,
> as is given by some other good FBC/ABE methods, and by Approval.
> 
> Either outcome seems perfectly ok.
> 

I agree that either outcome seems perfectly OK, but in the simplest interpretation of voters distributed 
along a one dimensional issue space, I think that C is the most likely CW.

Forest



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