[EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

[Jameson Quinn]

2010/4/28 Peter Zbornik <pzbornik at gmail.com>

> OK, thanks.
> Please go on to propose the condorcet, if you think it is the best.
>
> Approval voting was used in the French presidential election, first round,
> where far-right nationalist Le Pen got to the second round.
> Le Pen was hardly a centrist.
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting#Effect_on_elections
> Quote:"one study [16] showed that approval voting would not have chosen the
> same two winners as plurality voting (Chirac and Le Pen) in France's
> presidential election of 2002 (first round) - it instead would have chosen
> Chirac and Jospin. To some, this seemed a more reasonable result[citation
> needed] since Le Pen was a radical who lost to Chirac by an enormous margin
> in the second round."
>
> Peter
>
>
I think you're misreading Wikipedia there. Approval was not used; the
passage simply says that some suggest that if it HAD been used, the results
would have been better.

JQ
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