[EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 236, Issue 12

[Closed Limelike Curves]

I think a Condorcet method would be most likely to do that (since it
maximizes the chances that the elected candidate will have majority
support). Majority Judgment can actually do arbitrarily badly at this--a
candidate can win even if only one voter supports them. (It lacks the
Archimedean property.)

On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM steve bosworth <stevebosworth at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Today's Topics:
>
>    1. Re: Electing Cabinets/Executive Committees – starting with MJ
>
> 3/9/2024
> From: stevebosworth at hotmail.com
>
> What do you think of using Majority Judgment to elect the provisional
> prime minister.
> As a result, this winner would have received the largest number of highest
> grades regarding their suitability for this office?  This number would also
> be a majority of all the votes in the elected parliament. Such a winner
> would seem to be the one most likely to be able to negotiate the formation
> of a unified cabinet that would receive the needed majority vote of
> confidence.
>
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