[EM] French Presidential Second Ballot.

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 04/28/2022 6:23 PM Richard Lung <voting at ukscientists.com> wrote:
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> The French Second Ballot illustrates what's wrong with Condorcet Pairing, in general.
> As Simon Laplace first appreciated, you cannot add first and second preferences, because they are of unequal importance. Less than half the votes, in the first ballot, reveal a much greater level of support than do the extra votes gathered in the Second Ballot, exclusive to merely two candidates.

IMO, the "importance" of a vote that should be equal, is that which is associated with the voter's franchise.  However the election works out, if fewer voters like A rather than B than the other way around, if A is elected that means those fewer votes had more juice in them and counted more than those votes from the voters supporting B over A.

It's not about their absolute rank on the ballot but about their relative rank on the ballot and every voter's vote counts equally.

That's why I'm a Condorcet disciple.

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