[EM] Poll for favorite single winner voting system with OpaVote

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 13:49:57 PDT 2011


C beats A 51-49.

2011/10/14 MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp at hotmail.com>

>  Hi Juho--
>
> > If that one example set of votes is "bad enough" for MMPO, then how about
> this example for PC(wv)?
> .
> > 49 A
> > 48 B > C
> > 03 C
>
> That example doesn't have a bad result at all.
>
> A has no pairwise defeat, and wins as Condorcet winner. I (nowadays at
> least) define PC
> by first saying:
>
> "If any candidate doesn't have a pairwise defeat, that candidate wins."
>
> Sure, if all we said was "The winner is the candidate whose greatest
> pairwise defeat is the least",
> then that could be construed as meaning that C wins, because A doesn't have
> a pairwise defeat, and,
> among the pairwise defeats, C has the smallest one.
>
> If I've ever defined PC in that latter way, only saying what is in quotes
> in the previous paragraph,
> then I didn't write the definition very well. If so, then I apologize for
> my careless writing of the
> definition.
>
> By the way, Juho, speaking of polls (in the other thread), didn't you do an
> international poll a few years ago.
>
> I was about to ask you to do another one--but this time, just ask people to
> vote on a _world_ president,
> prime-minister, or leader.
>
> I hope you'll consider that.
>
> If you do, here are my nominations:
>
> British MP Livingstone
> Arundati Roy (an Indian woman well-known for her humane efforts)
> Nelson Mandela
>
> No doubt there are others worthy of candidacy too, but those are the ones
> that first occur to me.
>
> So, how about an interational poll for world leader?
>
> Mike
>
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