Normative principles of elections- Condorcet and Irrelevance of Alternatives (plus a brief hello and an STV clarification)

[Mike Ositoff]

I'm always interested in suggestions about flaws, including this
one, but I have to admit that I've never known what "normative"
means. But as for principles that (almost) everyone can agree on,
we Condorcet advocates base our whole advocacy on such principles:

Majority rule
Getting rid of the lesser-of-2-evils problem (LO2E)
Avoiding the need for defensive strategy

(The last 2 are the same, really, and both are closely
related to the first)

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It would be good to comply with IIAC (Irrelevant Alternatives Critrerion),
but it isn't possible, at least not without giving up other
more important properties.

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Mike Ossipoff