[EM] Why no Condorcet proposals?

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2024-01-10 21:07, Bob Richard [lists] wrote:
> A Condorcet-compliant method, Nanson, was used in the small city of 
> Marquette, Michigan in the 1920s. It would be very instructive to learn 
> why it was repealed. I have never seen anything more than a passing 
> mention of this episode, so this research would probably involve 
> traveling to Marquette and rummaging around in newspaper archives, 
> county election records and the public library. On the other hand, this 
> part of Michigan is a beautiful place to visit. Any takers?

In addition, regarding Condorcet methods in actual use, Schulze has been 
used by a bunch of organizations, and in referenda in a Spanish city. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Usage

My impression is that Schulze got its relatively popularity by first 
being adopted by technology-conscious organizations like Debian and 
Wikimedia, and then filtering down from there.


Nanson has also been used by the University of Adelaide and the 
University of Melbourne. University elections aren't the same thing as 
public ones and the circumstances do differ, but perhaps figuring out 
why they were repealed there would give at least some idea?

(Then again, perhaps not; see my confused surprise at the reasoning the 
UBC Alma Mater Society gave for abandoning Ranked Pairs.)

-km