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Re: OT: For information only !

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 20:25
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> I actually fail to understand how such a system would ever provide an > absolute majority. Absolute majority means absolute majority of *first > choice* (only choice in our case) during one election *day*. Anything else > is no absolute majority. With your way, it looks like one can get an > absolute majority out of first, second, and maybe even third choices *on > the same election day*. That strikes me as particularly unfair. If it's > your way there, so be it, but I would never recommend such a system > anywhere else.
It's equivalent to leaving voting instructions as follows: In the first election, I vote for A. In the runoff election, if there is one, I vote for B. In the second runoff election, if there is one, I vote for C. ... -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; jcowan@reutershealth.com Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; www.ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)

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