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

[Peter Zbornik]

Ok, thanks.
Yes, my misstake.

Peter

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 2010/4/28 Peter Zbornik <pzbornik at gmail.com>
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>  OK, thanks.
>> Please go on to propose the condorcet, if you think it is the best.
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> JQ
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