[EM] NPV vs Condorcet

Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Wed Oct 22 15:37:22 PDT 2008


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





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