- L's electors, if they cannot vote for L they will vote for R, because they hate N.
- R's electors, if they cannot vote for R they will vote for N, because they hate L.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Election time
In Italy, there are just three parties: L (the left), R (the right), and N (north league). Elections are done, L and R get each 49\% of votes, N just 2\%. Since an agreement cannot be found, two tie-break rounds are done, where the two biggest parties are matched, and at the second round the winner is matched against the other party. Prove that there is a strategy for N's electors to make their party win the tie-break rounds, knowing that:
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you are assuming that N's electors are rational people? :D
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