[EM] NPV vs Condorcet

[Markus Schulze]

Hallo,

Raph Frank wrote (21 Oct 2008):

> Approval could be considered a ballot with 2 ranks
> and equality allowed.

The problem is: When a state uses approval voting,
then this state will probably publish only the numbers
of approval votes for each candidate, but it will
certainly not publish the individual ballots.

>From the numbers of approval votes, only the _margins_
of the pairwise defeats can be extracted.

Markus Schulze