[EM] just to let you know ...

[Juho]

One could say that Condorcet has by now been well tested in various  
non-governmental elections. Maybe they are credible enough??

There may be some additional problems too. I hope the already existing  
procedures of IRV to digitize the ballots and collect that data can be  
easily reused (or corresponding ones developed).

Juho


On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:59 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:

> 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.