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doire ([personal profile] doire) wrote2008-05-27 11:32 pm

Voting patterns

Transferable votes can give strange results. Consider five candidates: A, B, C, D, & E.
candidate 1st choice 2nd choice
A 20 2
B 18 88
C 21 0
D 21 1
E 20 9
B is clearly the most popular overall candidate who would be accepted by most people, but is the first to be eliminated.

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