>Could you post those examples where RP and not SSD produces those >"seemingly undesirable results"?
I can't find those old messages in my archives, but here's a very simple example: 49: Bush 24: Gore 27: Nader,Gore Bush beats Nader 49-27 Nader beats Gore 27-24 Gore beats Bush 51-49 With ranked pairs, the Gore-Bush defeat is overturned, and Bush wins, despite a true majority preferring Gore to Bush. In SSD the Nader-Gore defeat gets overturned, and Gore wins, which seems more intuitive to me. --- D- Bush has a last place majority. Nader beats Gore 27-24 (if nonvotes are not counted) or 51.5 - 48.5 (if Nader and Gore are deemed tied by the 49 Bush voters). The example is the general divided majority example -- Maj1 A>B Maj2 B>A Min C Total Maj1 plus Maj2 = Majority Min = Minority Some or all of the Minority (C) may insincerely vote for the perceived lesser of 2 evils (A and B) in the Majority. How many other methods fail a simple majority test -- first place, last place or any other place ???
