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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I need to correct this --
all except Huntsman (if, indeed, he would be a Condorcet winner at
all).</font><br>
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On 9/23/2011 11:04 AM, Bob Richard wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E7CCA11.9090403@robertjrichard.com"
type="cite">None of Warren Smith's examples (as far as I know) are
examples of "weak Condorcet winners". They are examples of fairly
strong Condorcet winners. If Smith's examples are relevant, then
all Condorcet winners who would not get elected using some
non-Condorcet compliant method are "weak".
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On 9/23/2011 10:58 AM, Warren Smith wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Another example is Chile 1970.
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Tomic ["centrist"]
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was the Condorcet winner (and probably also range, approval) but
was
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not elected, indeed finished last. Allende ["leftist"] was
elected.
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Allende had an extremely ineffective government and fell to a
coup,
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which was a huge disaster for Chile.
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This example totally goes against Gilmour's theory that "weak
Condorcet
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winners" are a bad idea since they'd be "totally ineffective" at
governing.
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Executive Vice President
Californians for Electoral Reform
PO Box 235
Kentfield, CA 94914-0235
415-256-9393
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