On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Blake Cretney wrote in part:
> Similarly, an IRV supporter might declare that there is only a definite > group opinion when there is a first-place majority winner. I would be delighted if I could find an IRV supporter that admitted that a first place majority winner has a greater mandate than someone who wins by a majority of transferred votes. The greatest value of the Consistency Criterion in this context is its potential for waking up IRV supporters to the fact that a majority of transferred votes is not so decisive after all. Forest ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
