[Election-Methods] USING Condorcet
Markus Schulze
markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Mon Jun 30 12:29:01 PDT 2008
Dear James Gilmour,
> > in 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation used approval
> > voting for the elections of its Board of Trustees.
> > Here is the election result:
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en
> >
> > No candidate was approved by a majority.
>
> Given that this was 3-member election, is that any
> surprise?
Yes, I had expected that, in an M-seat election
under approval voting, most voters voted for at
least M candidates.
> 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.
In 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation used approval voting:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en
In 2008, it used the Schulze method:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Results/en
Markus Schulze
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