[EM] Condorcet How?

Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Sun Mar 21 04:45:42 PDT 2010


Hallo,

Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (21 March 2010):

> Schulze's advantage is that it's actually being
> used and that it provides good results (by the
> Minmax standard). Ranked Pairs's (or MAM's,
> rather) is that it's easy to explain.
>
> The question is: which of these qualities are
> more important, were we to encourage the use of a
> Condorcet method in real (governmental) elections?

I claim that Burlington repealed IRV mainly because
it chose a candidate with a strong worst defeat.

Markus Schulze





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