>No election system in which voters rank candidates can have all properties >that seem >democratic or appropriate. >--Stephen H. Sosnick (5/03/11)
--and the obvious lesson to now draw from that conclusion is: you want voting systems in which the voters do NOT "rank candidates" -- such as approval voting and range voting. Arrow's "impossible" feat is actually possible using range voting (according to some authors' verbatim statements of the Arrovian 'impossibility'): http://rangevoting.org/ArrowThm.html -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) and math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
