Local Township Elections

[David Marsay]

A small point, but ballots can only be used to determine a majority 
preference if one knows what the relationship is between the ballots 
and the 'actual' individual preferences. In particular, a method that 
rewards tactical voting encourages misleading ballots and hence makes 
it impossible to determine the majority preference, by any method.

A method ought not reward tactical voting. Hence my regard for 
Condorcet.

> From:          "Steve Eppley" <SEppley at alumni.caltech.edu>
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> The information in the voters' preference orders is sufficient 
> to determine which candidate is the best compromise, the "true 
> majority" choice, even when three or more candidates fragment 
> the votes.  
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