<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 9/9/03 3:57:40 PM Central Daylight Time, eric@ericgorr.net writes:<BR>
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>B *IS* preferred by a majority over both A & C<BR>
Only in pairwise compaisons between B<>A, and B<>C. But that wasn't the election.<BR>
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>In the contest between B & A, only 85 people choose to participate. <BR>
>Of those 85, > 50% preferred B.<BR>
The voters were not choosing to participate in pairwise comparisons between each pair of candidates. They were TRYING to express their prefences. There was no "contest between B & A". There was an election that involved A, B, and C. <BR>
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>In the contest between B & C only 65 people choose to participate. <BR>
>Of those 65, > 50% preferred B.<BR>
Again, there was no contest between B & C.<BR>
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>I can see no reason to count those people who had no opinion in these <BR>
>contests and elected not to participate in them. They wanted no <BR>
>voice, so they didn't get any<BR>
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If 70 of 105 voters prefer somebody other than B. I cannot see why anyone would claim B has "majority" support.<BR>
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