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Title: The cities of Beijing, Sydney, Manchester, Berlin, and Istanbul each vied to hold the 2000 Summer ...
Post by: nelaaney on May 5, 2020

The cities of Beijing, Sydney, Manchester, Berlin, and Istanbul each vied to hold the 2000 Summer Olympics.  There was an election using plurality with elimination.  Four rounds worth of Olympic Committee voting are shown in the table below.

Why is it that these results could not have come from preference ballots?
◦ Beijing had more first place votes in the first round, but lost the election.
◦ Beijing had a plurality in the first three rounds of voting, but lost the election.
◦ Berlin received the same number of votes in the first and second rounds.
◦ The number of votes for Manchester decreased between the second and third round.
◦ none of these

Title: The cities of Beijing, Sydney, Manchester, Berlin, and Istanbul each vied to hold the 2000 Summer ...
Post by: ecox1012 on May 5, 2020

The number of votes for Manchester decreased between the second and third round.

Title: Re: The cities of Beijing, Sydney, Manchester, Berlin, and Istanbul each vied to hold the 2000 Summe
Post by: Luke Sechrest on Jan 18, 2021

Thank you

Title: Re: The cities of Beijing, Sydney, Manchester, Berlin, and Istanbul each vied to hold the 2000 Summe
Post by: Sabrina Martinez Vicentti on Sep 2, 2021

thank you