[EM] Methods

[Markus Schulze]

Hallo,

 > A voting system should never give the impression that candidates that
 > are universally loathed are ok. If our candidates were Adol Hitler,
 > Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong and
 > Leopold II of Belgium then approval would rightly illustrate that none
 > are good candidates. However a ranked system would merely indicate that
 > one of them is the "condorcet" winner giving no indication that none are
 > acceptable.
 >
 > I think any sane voting system *must* meet this requirement. The ability
 > for the electorate to unambiguously communicate that none of the
 > candidates are worthy of the post under contest.

But if one of these candidates has to be chosen, the fact, that you like
none of them, is quite irrelevant, because the legitimacy of the winner
does not depend on how overwhelmingly he was chosen.

Markus Schulze