[EM] True Ranked Choice - for Condorcet

[Dave Ketchum]

If someone can do better, fine.

I DO argue that such as Burlington demonstrate TRC doing better than  
IRV at truly seeing voter desires.

On Aug 23, 2010, at 2:38 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
>> I see below that leeswalker is doing his best for IRV.
>>
>> Would be useful if some of us could do better for Condorcet - which  
>> I see as a competitor that should win.
>>
>> TRC - True Ranked Choice  -
>
> the author that first introduced me to Condorcet (even though i had  
> conceived of the method myself when i first heard about Ranked  
> Choice ballots) was Nobel Laurate Eric Maskin in a Scientific  
> American article, used the term "True Majority" (not to be confused  
> with Ben Cohen's organization TrueMajority.org).
>
> "Truth" is sometimes in the eye of the beholder.  i dunno if the  
> claim of Condorcet being the "True" method of Ranked Choice and all  
> other ranked choice methods are sorta "Not True" or "False", might  
> be perceived by some as reaching too far.
>
> i dunno.
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