<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto">Kevin Venzke wrote:<BR><BR>"Margins, it seems to me, is DOA as a proposal due to the Plurality criterion.<BR>That 35 A>B, 25 B, 40 C would elect A is too counter-intuitive."<BR><BR>I agree. For those who don't know, the Plurality criterion says that if X is ranked<BR>strictly above all other candidates on more ballots than Y is ranked above any candidates,<BR>then Y must not win. <BR><BR><A href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Plurality_criterion">http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Plurality_criterion</A><BR></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">I like a more general standard that says that if X both pairwise beats Y and positionally<BR>dominates Y, then Y mustn't win.<BR><BR>Chris Benham<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR style="RIGHT: auto"></div></div></body></html>