Dear Raul, I wrote (25 May 2003): > There is only one election.
You wrote (25 May 2003): > This seems to contradict what you said in your 5/24 message: > > Manoj's May 15 proposal would choose candidate E. In the next > elections, when candidate E is the default option, Manoj's > May 15 proposal would choose candidate D. There is only one election. In this election, 38 voters prefer E to C, 42 voters prefer D to E and 24 voters prefer D to C. Manoj's May 15 proposal would choose candidate E. My proposal would choose candidate D. But --and this is what I have to criticize-- _if there was a second election_ then (simply because of the fact that in the first election the default option has been changed from candidate C to candidate E) in this second election the winner according to Manoj's May 15 proposal would be changed from candidate E to candidate D _without having any voter to change his mind_. On the other side, the winner according to my proposal would still be candidate D. In my opinion, this is a disadvantage of Manoj's May 15 proposal because this means that Manoj's May 15 proposal leads to unnecessarily frequent changes of the status quo. Markus Schulze