ternary operator vote

[Terry Reedy]

"Andrew Koenig" <ark at research.att.com> wrote in message

>A long time ago, Martin Gardner wrote an article about the difficulty
>of voting fairly when there are more than two alternatives available.
>He wrote down a list of fairness criteria--unfortunately, I no longer
>remember all of them--and showed that there was no voting strategy
>that could meet them all at the same time.

I believe he was paraphrasing the work and theorem of Kenneth Arrow,
whom I believe got an Ecomonics Nobel for this and maybe other work.
And yes, I have thought about this in the present context ;-).

tjr