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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">your criteria list you had "Majority" but for that you must actually be assuming the opposite of what I am trying, namely that</DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">*everyone* is delegating, is that right?</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">Everyone who votes for the majority candidate is either delegating to them, or voting them above all other alternatives - that is, approving only them but checking "do not delegate". This is the standard meaning of the majority criterion. For instance, by this meaning, approval meets the majority criterion.</DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">For MMC, everyone in the mutual majority is either delegating to one of the candidates, or approving all of them and nobody else.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">Oh, I missed that the voter can't rank at all. So you are good with FBC. But I don't regard Approval as satisfying what I</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">call MF and Woodall's Majority. It's possible to say it satisfies MF, but I prefer Woodall's treatment. (The criteria framework</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">I use doesn't have any way to say that Approval satisfies MMC. You can equate approval with equal-top, above-bottom, or</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">call it something external, but I can't say that voters stick to a limited number of slots. I understand the meaning of "two-slot </DIV>
<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">MMC" or "voted MMC" but I see these as inferior versions.)</DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">In response to your last line, if the majority set involves more than one candidate, the delegating voters are never part of it</DIV>
<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">and are unnecessary in getting one of these candidates elected. (I'm using your treatment that voters only have two rank </DIV>
<DIV class=yiv1153555418gmail_quote style="RIGHT: auto">levels.) If you don't agree, I'd like to hear how you are interpreting MMC, because I can't think of how else it would work.</DIV>
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