First: please do not make minor changes in the subject line, such as deleting the article "a". It breaks the thread in threaded email viewers, making it harder to respond.<br><br>Here's my response. I'd written:<div>
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That looks right. In fact, let's make it more extreme:<br>
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39 C<br>
10 C>A<br>
21 A>B<br>
30 B<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To clarify:</div><div><br></div><div>These ballots are consistent with your criterion, if the sincere preferences are </div><div>39 (C)<br>10 (C>A)<br>21 (A>B)<br>30 (B>A)</div>
<div>Thus, your criterion mandates that A wins with the ballots as first described (with B rather than B>A). I am not convinced that A is always the correct winner with these preferences. It would be very easy to assign utilities to these preferences such that A is a distant third. I do not think that it is a good idea to make hard criteria for borderline situations like this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>These ballots could also plausibly arise from the other sincere preferences I noted:</div>21 (A>C)<br>10 (C>A)<br>39 (C>B)<br>30 (B>C)</div><div class="gmail_quote">In which case it is very obvious that A is nowhere close to being the correct winner. This is a separate argument for why those ballots should not lead A to win.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Is this clear enough for you now?</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jameson</div></div>