[EM] Better Choices for Democracy

[Markus Schulze]

Hallo,

in May 2025, "Better Choices for Democracy", a new Condorcet
advocacy group, has launched its website:

https://www.betterchoices.vote

This group consists of people like Nic Tideman, Eric Maskin,
Charles T. Munger Jr. and James Green-Armytage.

They promote a Condorcet method called "Consensus Choice
Voting": If there is a Condorcet winner, that candidate
is the winner of Consensus Choice Voting. Otherwise, the
winner is determined by IRV. See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMVLU63Ws9A

Interestingly, this Condorcet method doesn't even satisfy
independence of clones.

Let's say that candidate A is a Condorcet winner, but
doesn't receive any first preferences. Consensus Choice
Voting then selects candidate A.

Now, let's say that candidate A is replaced by clones A1,A2,A3
and that none of these clones is a Condorcet winner. Then, IRV
kicks in and first eliminates A1, A2 and A3.

Markus Schulze