[EM] condorcet & range voting -- which one yields more condorcet winners?

Warren Smith warren.wds at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 23:48:02 PDT 2011


R.Bristow-Johnson complained about a claim made by Clay Shentrup
that range voting can elect more Condorcet winners than Condorcet methods.
This sounds insane, but arises if the voters are STRATEGIC.

Then, Condorcet voting can fail to elect (what would have been with
honest votes) a Condorcet winner.
Meanwhile range voting with strategic voters can elect him.
I've done sim experiments indicating that range voting finds
honest-voter Condorcet winners
more often than Condorcet methods do, if the voters are strategic. See:

http://www.rangevoting.org/StratHonMix.html

for the details

-- 
Warren D. Smith
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