[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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