[EM] Re: serious strategy problem in Condorcet, but not in IRV?

[Eric Gorr]

At 3:35 PM -0400 8/18/03, James Green-Armytage wrote:
>Anyway, this represents a slight improvement for my fairly grim example,
>but I will say that the basic problem is still there, and still fairly
>unsettling.

I still don't understand why it would be so unsettling from the 
aspect of an election method.

Considering that all elections methods can be manipulated in some 
form or another, what good is it to remind us that society can break 
down and make the election method irrelevant by subverting the 
process?

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