Suppose everyone in a town prefers to spend the budget on improved public transportation systems over public parks, but also prefers spending on public parks over building a public zoo. A voting system that ensures zoo funding would never beat spending on transportation would demonstrate which criteria for an ideal voting system?

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Transitivity in a voting system means if preference A is preferred over B, and B is preferred over C, then A should be preferred over C. This ensures that if public transportation is preferred over parks, and parks over a zoo, then transportation should always be preferred over the zoo.

Suppose Everyone in a Town Prefers to Spend the Budget