Hi!<br><br>I am planning to initialize a referenda in my country to change our voting system.<br>I want to propose Condorcet, and want to draft the referenda question in a way which makes no room for the legistrator to fall back to some ancient method when there is no Condorcet winner. I prefer Schulze method.<br>
<br>The problem is that our constitution and its interpretation leaves very narrow place to draft a referenda question.<br>The question should be clear, and it should be simple as well. The criteria so far executed by our Constitutional Court are the following:<br>
<br>There should be one question. - I need to state multiple criteria, and some may interpret them as several questions. I can reason that the question is one, which refers to a set of criteria which would be meaningless without each other.<br>
<br>There should be no specialized word. - "The average voter should be able to understand." So "Do you agree to vote our parliament members with a cloneproof Condorcet method which always produces a winner?" won't work.<br>
<br>There should be no explanations of terms and ideas in the question. - "The average voter should be able to understand." Constitutional Court ruled that ideas and terms which need explanations are beyond that.<br>
<br>It should be easily understandable. - "The average voter should be able to understand." Well, our whole constitution is built on the assumption that citizens are dumb. There might be some place here as I can point to the current text of voting law which contains D'Hont method as a small piece of the description of our voting system, and a small set of criteria is much simpler than that.<br>
<br>It should be definitive. - "Would you like a voting system which reflects the different views of voters better, and the winnig strategy for candidates is to cooperate" would be rejected because there are so many interpretation of it.<br>
<br>I think the right way would be draft the question with simple words through criteria which should be satisfied.<br>Can you help me by proposing such simple definitions of key criteria? Specifically I could not find a criteria which would not contain "beat-path" and be specific to Schulze.<br>
<br>I am sorry to ask the impossible, but we are in a dire need here.<br><br>