| Article ID: | iaor200416 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 45 |
| End Page Number: | 64 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2002 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Saari Donald G. |
| Keywords: | voting |
For three-alternative positional voting and decision methods, it is shown how to decompose the profiles and data sets in a manner which identifies all possible conflict relative to a specified procedure. This approach is illusrated with the plurality vote by characterizing all possible profiles which cause all possible conflicts between the plurality and other pairwise and/or positional procedures. The approach then is used to last doubt on an often-cited plurality vote property.