[EM] just to let you know ...
Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km-elmet at broadpark.no
Wed Jan 6 14:59:39 PST 2010
Juho wrote:
> In Burlington at least the arguments for Condorcet should be straight
> forward. People are already ok with ranked ballot based voting. Many of
> them may feel that in the last election the Condorcet winner should have
> won. From this point of view Condorcet is just a small modification that
> fixes this problem.
>
> Many voters may support going back to the old system since that would
> (at least seem to) fix the problem of failing to elect the ("beats all")
> Condorcet winner. It would make sense to make them aware that there are
> also other ways to solve the problem (= just fix the tabulation method).
There is another problem. Condorcet is *unknown*. Apart from Nanson (and
perhaps Baldwin, I'm not certain), no Condorcet method has been used in
a government context.
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