If the winner of an election is not affected by moving that winner higher on some voting ballets with no other changes, the voting system is satisfying:

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The property being described is called monotonicity, which means that if a voter increases the ranking of a candidate and that candidate wins, then that candidate should still win if all other rankings remain the same. This property is satisfied by some voting systems, including Ranked Pairs, Schulze, and Smith/Minimax. Therefore, the correct answer is B for monotonicity.

If the Winner of an Election Is Not Affected by Moving