Tue Jul 8 08:03:07 2003
John B. Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
"So, for example, The Approval-voting "nightmare" I quoted from Saari yesterday: 9,999
voters rank the candidates ABC, 1 ranks them CBA, all vote for their top two. B wins
with 10,000 votes to A's 9,999. AV is here doing exactly what it set out to do; this
is not a malfunction. I doubt any other voting method would do the same, but that is
not surprising, because they are trying to do other things."
Any approval or ranked ballot method can be modified to make A the winner in this case
by simply postulating that if more than 50% of the valid ballots rank one or more
candidates in first place then the candidate with the most first place votes wins.
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