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Identifying Violations of the Condorcet CriterionAnswer each question for each voting situation of Exercises 5-10.
(a) Which candidate is a Condorcet candidate?
(b) Which candidate is selected by the plurality method?
(c) Which candidate is selected by the Borda method?
(d) Which candidate is selected by the Hare method?
(e) Which voting method(s) —plurality, Borda, or Hare— violate(s) the Condorcet criterion for this profile of voters?
In Exercise 11 of Section 15.1, a 13-member committee is selecting a chairperson. The three candidates arc Amy a, Byron b, and Cory c. The committee members ranked the candidates according to the following voter profile.
Number of Voters | Ranking |
3 | a > c > b |
4 | c > b > a |
2 | b > a > c |
4 | b > c > a |
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