[EM] range voting - better than Condorcet for purpose of generating Condocet winners...

[Warren Smith]

concerning what happens with an honest+strategic voter mix under range voting:

http://rangevoting.org/StratHonMix.html

the interesting findings include
1. despite the worry that strategic voters occurring in ways correlated with
politics might penalize the honest voters, the sim shows that
range is still top of the heap versus the other voting methods even in
situations designed to exhibit this effect.

2. except that adding a top2-runoff after range, can and does help
if the percentage of strategic votes is high enough.

3. Under these circumstances (i.e. 50-50 strategic+honest mix)
range indeed produces honest-voter Condorcet winners more frequently than
Condorcet voting methods such as Schulze Beatpaths - which it seems to me
really hurts them at the most fundamental level.

A web page on range voting criticisms is now available at CRV:

http://rangevoting.org/RVcrit.html

Warren D Smith
http://rangevoting.org