[EM] Slashdot: An Analysis of Various Election Methods

[Rob Lanphier]

Our favorite topic is currently the topic of discussion over at Slashdot:
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/01/2139227&tid=226

> "An Analysis of Various Election Methods"
> Posted by michael on Saturday October 02, @02:08AM
> from the anything-would-be-a-step-forward dept.
> An anonymous reader writes "David Cobb talked about Instant Runoff 
> Voting (IRV) as the best choice in electoral methods in his interview 
> here, but is it really? The folks over at electionmethods.org seem to 
> think it isn't. They favor Condorcet voting, which is another ranking 
> style method using simulated one on one elections. Here is an 
> evaluation of various methods, including IRV and Condorcet."

It's interesting to see how interest in IRV seems to naturally lead to 
interest in Condorcet

Rob