Suppose That Residents of a Town Are Asked to Vote

question 223

Multiple Choice

Suppose that residents of a town are asked to vote on the best day to improve the safety of an intersection. The three choices are: a stoplight, a 4-way stop, and a 2-way stop. The mayor asks the residents to assign 3 points to their first choice, 2 points to their second choice, and 1 point to their last choice. The intersection will be controlled by the method that receives the most points. This voting scheme is called

• A)Arrow's impossibility theorem.
• B)the Condorcet paradox.
• C)a Borda count.
• D)the median voter theorem.

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