[EM] Is Condorcet The Turkey?

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Fri Jun 20 12:20:01 PDT 2003


At 12:08 PM -0700 6/20/03, Forest Simmons wrote:
>If the voters know that ties are going to result in the speaker of the
>house, say, deciding the winner, then those voters who like the speaker's
>likely choice better than the likely CW may try to arrange a tie.

They can still try to arrange a tie with Eppley's method as well, 
forcing a random choice to be made.

I don't see how this forms a convincing argument either way.

I would still want to see the results expressed as a tie, rather then 
have them hidden from me.




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