[EM] The Coming California Single Seat Election

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Donald,

you wrote (16 Aug 2003):
> I have not seen anything said on this list about the coming
> California single seat election for governor. No one is
> suggesting that their favorite method should be used instead
> of Plurality. What's the problem?  Do you sense your favorite
> method will fail? I think both Approval and Condorect would
> fail this election.

There will be 135 candidates in the upcoming elections to the
governor of California. However, I don't see any reason why
Condorcet methods shouldn't be used. For example: In so
far as Ranked Pairs meets monotonicity, reversal symmetry,
independence from clones, and majority for solid coalitions
in the general case, it meets, of course, these criteria also
in the 135-candidate case. There is no reason why Ranked Pairs
should fail in the 135-candidate case.

To the paper by Amar, I want to say: In my opinion, the best
solution would be to have no recall vote and to treat Governor
Davis like an ordinary candidate.

Markus Schulze