Suppose That Residents of a Town Are Asked to Vote

Multiple Choice

Suppose that residents of a town are asked to vote on the best day to improve the safety of an intersection. The three choices are: a stoplight, a 4-way stop, and a 2-way stop. The mayor asks the residents to assign 3 points to their first choice, 2 points to their second choice, and 1 point to their last choice. The intersection will be controlled by the method that receives the most points. This voting scheme is called

A) Arrow's impossibility theorem.
B) the Condorcet paradox.
C) a Borda count.
D) the median voter theorem.