[EM] NPV vs Condorcet

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Bob Richard wrote:

> I still have no idea what this means. Here's an example:
>
> Plurality result:
>  Able: 45
>  Baker: 40
>  Charlie: 15
>
> Here's a (very naive) NxN matrix (fixed-width font required):
>        Able     Baker    Charlie
>        -------  -------  -------
> Able        --       45       45
> Baker       40       --       40
> Charlie     15       15       --
>
> But it's not a Condorcet count because we have, for example, no idea  
> how many of the Able voters prefer Baker to Charlie and how many  
> prefer Charlie to Baker. As a result, the pairs of cells above and  
> below the diagonal don't add up to 100. I still don't see how we can  
> "recount it into the NxN matrix by Condorcet rules".

For that matter, we have no idea how many Able voters prefer Charlie  
to Able, and voted strategically to beat Baker.