[EM] Highly-expressive preference voting

[robert bristow-johnson]

On 8/30/15 9:30 PM, James Kislanko wrote:
> Y'all are still jumping into areas I didn't mention.
>
that may be true.

> Succinctly, all I'm saying is that you cannot derive my personal 
> pairwise preferences from a ranked ballot.

you may be saying that, but it isn't true.  unless your personal 
pairwise preferences are circular.  and that i don't buy.

for a single voter who is not schizophrenic, if the voter prefers A over 
B and prefers B over C, that voter also prefers A over C.


> I'm not talking about the even more complicated question of counting 
> votes.

understood.  we'll fry them fish when it comes to that.

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