Finding the probable best candidate?

[Steve Barney]

Forest:

The plurality procedure is the only positional method which always elects a
majority candidate when one exists; therefore, one could argue that it is the
positional procedure which maximizes the election of a majority candidate.

SB

--- In election-methods-list at y..., Forest Simmons <fsimmons at p...> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Blake Cretney wrote:
> 
[...] 
> > By best candidate I really mean the best candidate.  That is, the 
> > candidate that would provide the best government.  The candidate we 
> > should hope the voters would elect.
> 
> I know what you mean, but it is useful to have something measureable to
> maximize so that we can see how close we are to the ideal.
> 
> 
> > Perhaps I could just define it as the winner of a plurality election?   
> > This is just defining the problem away.  
> 
> But what does the plurality candidate maximize?
>
> Forest
[...]



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