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James Gilmour jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk
Sat Jun 5 10:39:02 PDT 2004


Tom Ruen wrote:
> > Does anyone know a single locale anywhere in the world that 
> > has political elections for single winners that uses a 
> > "multiple vote" method?

Adam Tarr replied: 
> Several online groups of nontrivial size use Condorcet, and 
> Approval is used by international organizations with tens of 
> thousands of members (including the IEEE).

Are you, Adam, suggesting that Condorcet is not a "one person, one vote" system?  No voter can give
more than one vote to any one candidate.  When it comes to any decision, ie pair-wise comparison,
each voter's vote counts for only one candidate.  That would seem to satisfy any reasonable
definition of "one person, one vote".

Or did you have in mind the situation when a Condorcet cycle exists, so that the vote of a voter who
has marked more than one preference counts for more than one candidate at the same time?  In that
particular situation one might also argue that the voter's second preference was counting against
the voter's first preference.

James Gilmour




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