[EM] condorcet methods
Bart Ingles
bartman at netgate.net
Thu Mar 31 20:18:15 PST 2005
Curt Siffert wrote:
>
> Then the population could be told that the election will select a
> Condorcet Winner if one exists, and if not, one of the tiebreaking
> methods would be selected randomly. It would be better if they all met
> the Smith or Schwartz criteria.
>
> It remove the motivation for targetted tactical voting if there was
> always a chance the tactical voting would backfire.
I'm not sure what you main by *targeted* tactical voting, but if a
candidate has no chance of being the Condorcet winner, then that
candidate's chances are improved by creating a cycle if the cycle is
resolved randomly.
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