SODA voting (Simple Optionally-Delegated Approval): Difference between revisions

In this simplified example, all the residents of each city agree on the rankings of all the other cities, so there would be no reason for anybody to do anything but bullet vote. NashvilleMemphis has the first option to delegate, and, as the leader, decides not to. Nashville goes second; it is the pairwise champion (Condorcet winner), wouldso haveit noalso reasondeclines to delegate any of its votes. Chatanooga and Knoxville would delegate to each other and to Nashville, to prevent Memphis from winning. Nashville would then be the winner, with 58% approval after delegation.

Chatanooga could, threatenbefore the election, not toinclude delegateNashville in its votespreference to Nashvillelist, hoping to force Nashville to delegate to it. But thenin that case Memphis would delegate to Nashville to prevent thisNashville from happeningbeing forced to hand the election to Chatanooga, and Nashville would win with an even larger majority,. soTherefore, Chatanooga will not attempt this.