[EM] National Popular Vote & Condorcet

[Raph Frank]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Dave Ketchum<davek at clarityconnect.com> wrote:
> I assume more cooperation than this.

I think we are talking "orthogonally".

The NPV plan is that some of the States enter into a compact, and then
they vote their EC votes as a single unit.

You can reasonably assume that the compact States will conform to an
agreed way of announcing their results.  However, you can't assume
that non-compact States will be helpful.

One option is to just exclude non-compact States from participating,
so they either join the compact or they no longer influence who wins
the Presidency.

A more reasonable option is that you make an attempt to incorporate
the votes from the other States.

You could say that any State who won't provide a condorcet matrix of
its results in some form is excluded from the final tally. Is that
what you are proposing?

Personally, I think it would be better if the compact just had rules
for conversion into a matrix from a reasonable set of voting methods.
This also allows the States in the compact to use different methods.