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Voting patterns
May. 27th, 2008 11:32 pmTransferable votes can give strange results. Consider five candidates: A, B, C, D, & E.
B is clearly the most popular overall candidate who would be accepted by most people, but is the first to be eliminated.
back to thoughts on voting
| candidate | 1st choice | 2nd choice |
| A | 20 | 2 |
| B | 18 | 88 |
| C | 21 | 0 |
| D | 21 | 1 |
| E | 20 | 9 |
back to thoughts on voting
