[EM] Re: Condorcet package

[Ted Stern]

On 24 Feb 2005 at 12:31 PST, Paul Kislanko wrote:
> The electorate never sees the pairwise matrix. The voter only submits a
> ranked ballot.

Think AFTER the election.  Would you trust a blackbox election scheme?  No.
The vote counts would be public.

I'm simply saying, don't put irrelevant detail into the vote count.

>
> I have tried to express (ineloquently) before that we need to axiomatize
> EM's by keeping vote-collection methods distinct from vote-counting methods.
> Even in pure Condorcet, a voter is not presented with a pairwise-matrix,
> since that's a tabulation tool.

You're a Bourbakian!  I knew it. ;-)

Yes, I know the difference.  Consider it stated and let's move on.

Ted
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