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<DIV><FONT size=2>If I were going to display intermediate results in a Condorcet
election I think this is how I would do it. It presents all the information the
voters need to see how their candidate is doing compared to all of the others.
(I usually convert all of the count: A>B>C style examples on this list to
this format anyway, because it is easier for me to spot the patterns of blocks
of like-minded voters).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The thing to remember is that in a ranked-ballot system the
voter is not so much voting for a candidate, but for a particular ballot
configuration. In a three-candidate race I don't have 3 choices, I have 15. If
you list out all of the possible ballots that have received votes (presumably
<STRONG>after</STRONG> the voter has recorded her judgements) it is very clear
to the voter where her particular choices fit in the grand scheme of things. You
could highlight the current leader in the pairwise matrix and the ballot
configuration that corresponds to the voter's choices.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The problem with this is that the number of possible ballots
gets very large very fast. For 3 candidates there are 15, for 4, 64, and by the
time you get to 8 there are over 100,000. Of course, in practice most of these
don't occur in any specific election, and for intermediate results you can list
only the "top n" by count of votes for a particular configuration (if mine
doesn't show up on the response screen, I just say "oh, well, I voted for
McGovern again (republicans insert Goldwater). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I couldn't figure out how to display an example in Outlook
Express, so I've attached a little html fragment. The a1, a2, ... etc. would be
counts of votes that matched the ballot, and the A, B and C are candidate names.
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