[ClayShentrup]

> Arrow's theorem also doesn't guarantee that you will have problems. It just says that for some votings systems you can construct voting populations with preference that can't be captured well.

no, it has nothing to do with capturing preferences. it simply says that no ordinal social welfare function can simultaneously satisfy these criteria:

    There is no dictator.
    If every voter prefers A to B then so does the group.
    The relative positions of A and B in the group ranking depend on their relative positions in the individual rankings, but do not depend on the individual rankings of any irrelevant alternative C.

[eru]

> If every voter prefers A to B then so does the group. [...]

That's (part of) what I mean by 'capturing preferences'.