[EM] get Condorcet results from IRV results? (was IRV in action)

Forest Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Fri Apr 18 17:43:06 PDT 2003


On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Jan Kok wrote:

>
> I think it might be possible to determine the winner that a Condorcet method
> would select, given typical Australian IRV election results _plus_ the
> information on the how-to-vote cards given by party representatives to the
> voters.

But don't forget that the how-to-vote advice would be different under
Condorcet since the advice is based on strategy suited to the method, not
just the ballot type.

In other words, no how-to-vote advice would be needed if sincere ranking
was optimal strategy.

Forest




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