[Election-Methods] USING Condorcet

[James Gilmour]

Thanks, Markus.  I should have been paying closer attention!!

It is interesting to see the large numbers of ballots with many equal rankings, often but not always, one candidate versus the rest.
And yet the candidates within the equal rankings are given in specific orders.  If "no preference" among them, what does the order
signify in terms of the voting system (or in the voter's mind)?

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: election-methods-bounces at lists.electorama.com 
> [mailto:election-methods-bounces at lists.electorama.com] On 
> Behalf Of Markus Schulze
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:29 PM
> To: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
> Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] USING Condorcet
> 
> 
> 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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