[EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

⸘Ŭalabio‽ Walabio at MacOSX.Com
Sat Apr 14 07:30:18 PDT 2012


	2012-04-14T12:31:48Z, “Robert Bristow-Johnson” <Rbj at Audioimagination.Com>:

> 	all this is complicated crap that gunks up elections.  it has an ice-cube's chance in hell.

	I disagree.  Perhaps I am unclear:

1:
	Lincoln

2:
	Washington

3:
	Evil-Indicator Candidate

4:
	Stalin

5:
	Hitler

	Let us suppose that so much bad blood exists between Washington and Lincoln that their supporters refuse to rank the other candidate and that Hitler and Stalin have supporters.  Unless one ranks the hundreds of also-rans so that one can make certain that Hitler and Stalin are ranked last, they will be equally ranked with the olso-rans and their supporters might make them win.

	The Evil-Indicator Candidate gets a rank less than all unranked candidates.  Any candidate beneath the Evil-Indicator Candidate automatically gets a rank less than all unranked candidates.  This is easier than ranking hundreds of also-rans and will hopefully keep Hitler and Stalin from winning.


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