[EM] Arrow's theorem

Warren Smith warren.wds at gmail.com
Wed May 4 11:14:28 PDT 2011


>No election system in which voters rank candidates can have all properties that seem >democratic or appropriate.
>--Stephen H. Sosnick (5/03/11)

--and the obvious lesson to now draw from that conclusion is: you want voting
systems in which the voters do NOT "rank candidates" -- such as
approval voting and range voting.  Arrow's "impossible" feat is
actually possible using range voting
(according to some authors' verbatim statements of the Arrovian
'impossibility'):
   http://rangevoting.org/ArrowThm.html

-- 
Warren D. Smith
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