[Election-Methods] USING Condorcet

[James Gilmour]

Markus Schulze> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:28 PM
> in 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation used approval
> voting for the elections of its Board of Trustees.
> 
> No candidate was approved by a majority.

Given that this was 3-member election, is that any surprise?  Surely the surprise in such an election would be if any candidate did
obtain a majority of the votes.

The subject line says this was a Condorcet election, but the presentation of the results gives no indication of that.  Indeed, from
the votes listed at 	
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en	
it looks like a multi-member first-past-the-post election in which the top three take the three seats.

James Gilmour

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