THE VOTING PARADOX

CLAREMONT AND SURROUNDING TOWNS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE have experienced a number of balloting concerns and voting outcomes of all kinds, mostly due to expanded and increased budgets and also possible tax increases,etc. CLAREMONT SAW ALL OF THE ITEMS ON ITS SCHOOL BUDGET PROPOSALS DEFEATED, except for one, which brings me to the VOTING PARADOX that few understand and so I will briefly mention a portion of it here, which I shall expand upon at another time, but most reading this will assume it is obvious but the implications of ordinary, obvious thought can be far reaching as well as short-sighted... CLAREMONT VOTERS,whether taxpayers or not, who are registered to vote and do so and those who may not be voters at all, but who in some way have items placed on the ballots for voting, are experiencing THE VOTING PARADOX! THIS VOTING PARADOX IS OPERATING AT EACH AND EVERY VOTING SESSION OR ELECTION. For example: suppose we have ITEM A & ITEM B on a ballot for which to vote for either or even both......by,say, 1000 registered voters but only 500 registered voters actually vote. WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME? The usual answer is generally this: THE OUTCOME WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE PREFERENCE FOR EITHER A OR B. Later, I shall give another consideration that will show why it is important to have preferences that will pass voter scrutiny and acceptance and why formulation of items on which to vote either succeed or fail or do not meet the expectations of those who formulated them, thus causing those with a certain agenda, no matter what, to be, as some of them say, 'disappointed','frustrated', 'defeated', etc. Well you supply your own adjectives for how those who lose feel and for those who win......More next time...