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Sometimes desirable properties or criteria are called desiderata.
Sometimes desirable properties or criteria are called desiderata.


There is disagreement over how important the various other criteria are. Some criteria are even considered bad by some.
There is disagreement over how important the various other criteria are. Some criteria are even considered bad by some; for instance, [[Michael Dummett]], in a letter to Robert Newland, regarded the combination of [[later-no-harm]] and [[later-no-help]] as "quite unreasonable".<ref name="Woodall 1994 Properties">{{cite journal | last=Woodall |first=D. |title=Properties of preferential election rules | journal=Voting matters | issue=3 | pages=8–15 | year=1994 | url=http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE3/P5.HTM}}</ref>


== Examples ==
== Examples ==