Tom McIntyre Wrote:
The A over C defeat is not erased. The only way you could consider that defeat erased, would be if C had won the election. Take the extreme example: say there was a fourth candidate, "Adam Tarr", who received zero votes. Does electing A, B, or C constitute "erasing a majority", because the other two candidates' defeats of mr. Tarr are not counted? Of course not. Such a standard would force us to declare every nontrivial multicandidate election as a tie.101: AAnd about 60% prefer A to C. What about honoring *that* majority? One of these majorities has to be lost. Both WV and margins count, keep, & honor one of them, and erase the other.
50: BAC
100: CBA
About 60% of the voters have indicated that they'd rather elect
B than A. And so margins elects A.
WV counts, keeps, & honors the B>A majority. A has a majority defeat that wv doesn't lose or erase. With margins, what happens to that majority against A? Margins erases it.
A defeat can only be considered erased if the candidate who suffered that defeat is actually elected. The only defeat that winning votes overturns in the above example is the 100>50 defeat of B by C. Margins keeps this defeat, but overturns the 150>101 defeat of A by B.
I may write a more lengthy follow up to Mike's post, but I won't have time until Thursday at the earliest.
-Adam
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