[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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