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Re: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)



While I like single transferrable vote, all voting schemes, including
STV have unfortunate properties.  Kenneth J. Arrow, a Nobel prize
winning economist, wrote a paper on voting in which he proved that 5
desirable characteristics of an election are mutually exclusive.  With
STV, the problem is roughly:

	If A, B, and C run against each other and A wins, then it
	should be the case than when A and B run against each other,
	then A wins.

The proof is left to the reader.


>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> If there is a contested election then we should use STV (Single
> Transferrable Vote).

> Basically, for those unfamiliar with it, each voter ranks the
> candidates in order of preference, and the voting scheme ensures
> that a later preference can never count against an earlier one.

> Schemes such as giving everyone some fixed small number of votes to
> distribute have unfortunate properties.

--
Kevin Dalley
kevin@aimnet.com


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