[EM] Voting Systems Study of the League of Women Voters of Oregon

[Markus Schulze]

Hallo,

in September 2008, the League of Women Voters of Oregon
published its Voting Systems Study:

http://www.lwvor.org/documents/ElectionMethods2008.pdf

This is what they write on Condorcet methods (page 16):

> A Condorcet ballot lists every pair of candidates with
> voters being asked to designate their preference in
> each pairing. The confusing ballot and difficulty of
> tallying votes made this system impractical. Now,
> however, voters can rank candidates with computers
> used to determine the winner. Some online communities
> use Condorcet voting, but for government elections
> new voting equipment would be required. There are
> also infrequent cases where the Condorcet system
> produces a circular outcome. "Candidate A may beat B,
> B may beat C, and C may beat A."

Interestingly, in the table on page 12, they claim
that Condorcet methods are not majority methods.

Markus Schulze