<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On 30 Sep 2014, at 07:10, dikov dikov <<a href="mailto:dikov1@yahoo.com">dikov1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">So if a contest assumes only one winner than any method is valid, right?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There age good and bad methods. In this list (that is quite good) many people could recommend e.g. some Condorcet methods.</div><div><br></div><div>I brief, Condorcet methods are very good at least in a situation where</div><div>- you elect one winner</div><div>- the elecion is competitive (i.e. people try to vote so that one of their favourites will win)</div><div>- you can afford the complexity of a method where the voters will rank the candidates (or at least some of them) in their preference order</div><div><br></div></div>(If you elect multiple winners, if the elction is not competitive (e.g. _neutral_ judges elect their favourite athlete) or if you need a simpler method, then it could be better to use some other methods.)<div><br></div><div>I write this just to make a long story short. Many (maybe most) people on this list (not all) think that Condorcet methods are good general purpose sigle-winner methods for competitive elections.</div><div><br></div><div>BR, Juho</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>