Dear Steph, you wrote (8 Dec 2002): > I suppose Mike means that if someone voted ABDEFH, > is vote can be cancelled by someone else voting CG > thus the combined effect of those two votes has no > effect on the outcome of the vote (except in the case > of a tie and a mathematically systematical tie-breaker).
I suppose that Mike means something like Donald G. Saari's "Reversal Symmetry Criterion" which says that adding a vote and its reversal shouldn't change the outcome. However, this criterion is a rather strong criterion (especially when one promotes "winning votes"). Markus Schulze ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
