[EM] Is Condorcet The Turkey?

[Eric Gorr]

(Meant to reply to this sooner)

At 5:22 PM -0700 6/13/03, Forest Simmons wrote:
>And Condorcet is much better than IRV for reasons that I have tried to
>elucidate in recent postings.  See Steve Eppley's web page for additional
>explanations of why his version of Ranked Pairs is about as close as you
>can get to the ideal.

Yes, Steve has a very good analysis (www.alumni.caltech.edu/~seppley) 
of his version of RP.

The only problem that I have with it is that I still don't understand 
why it is necessary or even a good idea to hide a genuine tie from 
those running an election.

It is only (I *think*) his random selection to solve ambiguities that 
his method differs from the one that I have implemented 
(http://www.ericgorr.net/condorcet/).

It would seem to me to be far better to simply report the tie and let 
those running the election to decide how to resolve it.


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