[EM] voter strat & 2-party domination under Condorcet voting

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Tue Aug 16 01:23:28 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:39 -0400, Warren Smith wrote:
> So anybody who is interested in third parties ever having
> a chance, would be advised NOT to foolishly advocate either IRV or Condorcet,
> but insetad would be advised to advocate RANGE VOTING (which experimentally
> favors third parties far more than either plurality or approval, incidentally,
> see the CRV web site).
> -wds
> ----

Or a proportional method with multiple winners...

Also, why are you assuming voters will show great strategy in Condorcet
elections but not the same similar strategy in range elections (ie:
moving B to a lower range than C, and giving A a zero score)?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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