Jameson wrote ... > > MAS is good at dealing with a vote-splitting situation ("chicken dilemma", > so called because in many voting systems it can work like a game of chicken > between the two majority subfactions). Say that one "side" of voters have > 55%, but there are two candidates on that side splitting the vote and only > one on the other side. In this case, assuming voters on either side > downvote the candidates on the other side, the 45% candidate will be > eliminated by downvotes, and whichever subfaction of the majority has more > supporters will win. > It seems to me that the smaller of the two majority subfactions could still down vote the other majority subfaction so that only the defecting subfaction would not be eliminated