On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:05 PM, James Gilmour wrote:
N Unique Preference Profiles
2 4
3 15
...
then your calculation is mistaken. the fact that you ostensibly need
4 piles when there are only two candidates should serve as a clue.
If there are two candidates, A and B, then the possible unique
preference profiles are:
A
B
A>B
B>A
what, on a ballot, is the consequential difference in meaning between
"A" and "A>B"? what effect does a ballot marked "A>B" have over one
marked just "A" (or vise versa) in *any* election method that uses
ranked ballots?
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