[EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 236, Issue 18

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 03/11/2024 11:22 PM EDT Closed Limelike Curves <closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I wonder if what we really want is to take pairwise differences in scores, then calculate the median difference for each pair of candidates. That might give you a system that behaves like Condorcet but still accounts for intensity of preferences. (Is that a thing?)
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Do you actually think that in a competitive partisan political election where voters have a stake in the outcome, want to prevail politically, and vote by secret ballot that they would mark their ballots honestly about intensity of preference?

"My system is only intended for honest men." Jean-Charles de Borda

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