Condorcet's mathematical built-in bias
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Thu Dec 5 16:29:45 PST 1996
It appears that some EM folk do not know how Condorcet operates.
Namely in a three candidate election, the first and second choice votes are
combined for purposes of doing head to head comparisons.
If X percent of the voters voted a first choice for candidate Y, then
obviously 100-X percent of the voters can vote a second choice for candidate
Y.
Obviously 100 percent of the voters can vote a first choice plus a second
choice for each candidate if such voters want to do so.
The general case is that with N or more candidates, the choices at the N-1
levels that rank a candidate over a lower ranked candidate all may add up to
100 percent of the voters.
Thus, there is no bias whatever.
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