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

[Juho Laatu]

The intention was to say that 48+3 voters prefer C to A.

An international poll for world (ceremonial) president would be fine. I would not be as willing to elect (or even poll) a world leader since I think having a world leader would be a very risky business. In the current state of humankind it is better to have multiple competing (but peaceful) units that may and will make different decisions. That sort of guarantees that no madness spreads too far and does not become the dominant and only allowed way of thinking. Dictators also appear from time to time. Better to have a 10% dictator than a 100% dictator.

There must be also other good candidates. What would you say about the king of Bhutan? Or maybe Dalai Lama? One problem is that we do not know the best candidates since they typically don't survive in the game of politics long enough to become internationally known. Better "players" tend to bypass them already early in the game. :-)

Juho



On 14.10.2011, at 23.32, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

> 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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