Donald E Davison said: > Mike Saari: "Suppose there are only two candidates, or suppose that all > candidates have been eliminated down to only two. > > Here is the sample scenario: > All of the voters rate candidate "B" as "very good". > 60% of the voters rate candidate "A" as "excellent" > The other 40% of the voters rate candidate "A" as "awful". > > Donald: Candidate A is the winner. I'm telling you that right up > front. I don't need to hear a bunch of twisted logic to the contrary.
I'm with Donald on this one. When a candidate is the first choice of a majority of the voters he should win. Fortunately, the Approval variant known as Majority Choice Approval would give the result that Donald and I both advocate in this scenario. 60$ of the voters would rate A as "Preferred", the other 40% would rate A "Unacceptable." Everybody would rate B "Acceptable". Since A was preferred by a majority he would win. A is also the Condorcet winner in this case.... Alex ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
