[EM] the 'who' and the 'what' - trying again

[Michael Allan]

Dave Ketchum wrote:
> Disturbing existing elections by marrying in something from Condorcet seems 
> very destructive considering possible benefits, so how about:
>      Run a phantom Condorcet election with current candidates before the 
> existing voting.

We've coded something like that already, for a similar purpose.  I'm
not sure our voting mechanism always selects the Condorcet winner (?).
But is this roughly what you are thinking?

  http://zelea.com/project/votorola/home.xht

(The code is open source.  So the voting UI and count engine could be
modified to support any flavour of Condorcet.)

> Candidates can drop out if they choose:
>      Third party candidates have little to lose.
>      Major party candidates risk static as to why they did not dare.
>
> Those who choose to, vote via internet.
>
> Thus we have ballots to count and report on as a sort of poll.

-- 
Michael Allan

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