Dr. Jenkins,
I wrote this last week, but i just realized it didn't post. Sorry.
Dr. Saari, explained a way that each of three "candidates" can win based on the type of voting method, plurality, pairwise, or a runoff election. The question is what does that do to democracy? These types of phenomena is surprisingly likely. Plurality method is one point for first place and zero for all others. Another method is to weight each place with a certain number of points. One conclusion is that anything is possible no matter the voting method. Dr. Saari could fix any election using mathematics.
One way to measure good voting procedures is to see if actual ties are made to be ties using the voting procedures. In the end, it is clear that voting is arbitrary and very vulnerable and that Voting is everywhere.
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