[EM] Condorcet corresponding to some variant of IRV?

[Bjarke Dahl Ebert]

> On Mon, 26 May 2003 00:37:20 +0200 Bjarke Dahl Ebert wrote:
>
>  > Here's an idea:
>  >
>  > If you modify IRV to not cancel first votes when progressing to
secondary
>  > votes, would that method find the Condorcet Winner?
>
>
> BIG question is:  WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO?
>        Where can you find any happiness by, supposedly, doing IRV, but
> sometimes picking a different winner than IRV would?

I'm not at all trying to find a better method than Condorcet - at best an
alternative characterization of the Condorcet Winner.
I think it would be an interesting theoretical result, if it could be proved
that the CW is also the winner of some modified IRV. (That could also make
some people better accept Condorcet)

Even if it doesn't always produce the CW, an election method could be
"theoretically interesting" - at least for comparison with other methods.
That's not the same as saying that it is a good method :)


Bjarke