On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:59:51PM +0200, Guido Trotter wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:05:47AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If the "winning" option is discarded due to quorum requirements, then > > given that all non-default options have the *same* quorum requirement, > > this is exactly what would happen. > I think this is not inherently true. Since all options are compared two by > two one of them could theorically defeat all the others but fail to defeat > the default one by the quorum requirement, while at the same time all the > others can defeat the default one with the necessary quorum margin... > This is, of course, a quite borderline case, but it indeed exists. Ok, after hitting 'send' I was wondering whether this might be the case. However, as you say, this is very borderline; neither is it likely to occur, nor is it likely that voters will be worried about this corner case when deciding whether to vote. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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