[EM] An interesting real election

[Aaron Armitage]

--- On Mon, 1/31/11, Markus Schulze <markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> From: Markus Schulze <markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de>
> Subject: Re: [EM] An interesting real election
> To: election-methods at electorama.com
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 5:29 AM
> Dear Andrew,
> 
> you wrote (31 January 2011):
> 
> > Notice that if someone now votes 2 > 1 > 6,
> > the Schulze method picks 1 over 2, which is
> > the opposite of what the new voter wanted.
> 
> Well, the Condorcet criterion and the participation
> criterion are incompatible with each other.
> 
> Markus Schulze
> 

But it should matter how often paradoxical events like that occur. As
someone who favors ranked pairs I hope it does relatively well, but I
really have no idea.