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<div> </div><div>Juho--</div><div> </div><div>You wrote:</div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>"Current" might refer to the U.S.</div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div> </div><div>[endquote]</div><div> </div><div>Yes, sorry--"Current U.S. conditions" would is what I mean when I say, "current condiions".</div>
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<div><div> It would be good to point out clearly where the recommendations apply (e.g. to improve presidenial elections of certain type, in single winner districts of legislative bodies etc.)</div><div> </div></div></div>
</blockquote><div>[endquote]</div><div> </div><div>I don't specify that because, when I refer to official public political elections, I mean all of them. But yes, certainly elections to state and national office are the imporatnt ones here, and those are the ones that I really mean when i say "official public political elections".\</div>
<div> </div><div>Thanks for pointing out those unstated intended meanings.</div><div> </div><div>I'd said:</div><div> </div><div>...Recommended: Approval, Score, ICT</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><div>2. Green scenario</div><div> </div><div>...Recommended: IRV, Benham, Woodall</div>
<div> </div><div>3. Ideal majoritarian conditions</div>
<div> </div><div>...Recommended: MAM</div><div> </div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div> </div><div>Current conditions need FBC. Green scenario conditions (in which a progressive party has been elected to office) call for MMC and CD, with the Condorcet Criterion a desirable bonus. That combination is possible because FBC isn't needed.</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>This sounds a bit like using different methods based on the current political situation.</div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>[endquote]</div><div> </div><div>Yes.</div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div> Typically one has to use one method that works well enough in all possible situations.</div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>[endquote]</div><div> </div><div>
Certainly not.</div><div> </div><div>I'm not saying that we should vary the voting system from one election to the next, but I do say that there are broad longterm conditions that obtain for long periods (but it would be nice if current conditions don't obtain for too long), and that the votnig system should be optimized for those longterm condtions.</div>
<div> </div><div>Just because current conditions (for U.S., official public political elections) require FBC doesn't mean that FBC is a requirement for voting sysems used in polling,where FBC isn't needed because of the absence of media-induced strategic pressure</div>
<div> </div><div>.., or that FBC is a requirement when a newly-elected progressive government chooses a voting system, when media and eletorate are entirely diferent from what they are now..</div><div> </div><div>...or that CD is a requirement for voting systems for polling, where results evidence shows that successful chicken-dilemma defection isn't taking place.</div>
<div> </div><div>Different voting systems are optimal under different conditions.</div><div> </div><div>Michael Ossipoff</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div>