>From: Bart Ingles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [EM] Letter to Discover Magazine >Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:30:21 -0800 > > >Dear Editor: > >Dana Mackenzie's article [May the Best Man Lose, November] may be the >best treatment of the subject I have seen in a popular publication. Of >the featured voting systems, Borda could well be the method of choice >for engineering applications where the voters are automata incapable of >varying preference levels. > >Not so with human voters. Suppose the voters rate candidates on a scale >of 0-10 (ratings in parentheses): > >45% Clinton(10) Perot(1) Bush(0) >25% Perot(10) Bush(1) Clinton(0) >30% Bush(10) Perot(1) Clinton(0) > >Here Perot is the Borda winner, even though 75% of voters strongly >dislike Perot. The runoff winner (Bush) is despised by 70%, while the >plurality winner is only rejected by 55% (and seems the best choice in >this example). ----- D- We have been through this about 4 times on this list. Who is getting above 50 percent of the votes that have an above 5 rating (in the polls or the election) (aka a YES vote) ??? Looks like none of the 3. All 3 should lose. Would some more candidates show up ??? If ratings were being used in the 7 Nov 2000 election for U.S.A. President, would ANY of the candidates get above 50 percent of the votes that have an above 5 rating ???
