[EM] IRV vs Condorcet

[robert bristow-johnson]

On May 29, 2010, at 2:30 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:

i forgot to finish a sentence.

>> r b-j asks rhetorically:
>> now ask yourself the question whether or not Condorcet satisfies  
>> these criteria (assuming a CW exists).


> On May 27, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
>> Of course it does, because you only included the anti-strategy  
>> criteria which it does pass.
>
r b-j responds:
> they're more like basic principles of a fair and predictable (in  
> behavior) election system.  they're almost axiomatic.  if one were  
> to take issue with any one of those 6 principles,...


> ...i would ask them to defend their objection or devaluation  
> (relative to other criteria that might be seen to compete against  
> those 6) of any of those 6 principles on a fundamental philosophical  
> level.  i know there are other election criteria of "goodness", but  
> those are the salient ones.

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