<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5605">Hi,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5317"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5596" dir="ltr">Thank you for the reply and sorry for the pause.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5597" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5598" dir="ltr">I though that Condorcet methods are better when multiple places are concerned. Then scoring every entry brings relevant ranking. On another hand if only one winner is considered than simple majority system is accurate enough. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5600" dir="ltr">Is it correct, or I am wrong?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5604" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5601" dir="ltr">Thank you,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5603" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5602" dir="ltr">DMytro<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5608" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5609" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412605701089_5610" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:37 PM, Juho Laatu <juho4880@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3413177624"><div>On 30 Sep 2014, at 07:10, dikov dikov <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dikov1@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dikov1@yahoo.com">dikov1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div class="yiv3413177624yqt0443890783" id="yiv3413177624yqtfd25417"><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div></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;"><div class="yiv3413177624" style="font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><div class="yiv3413177624yqt0443890783" id="yiv3413177624yqtfd74265">So if a contest assumes only one winner than any method is valid, right?</div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></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 clear="none"></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 clear="none"></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 clear="none"></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 clear="none"></div><div>BR, Juho</div><div class="yiv3413177624yqt0443890783" id="yiv3413177624yqtfd88781"><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><br>----<br clear="none">Election-Methods mailing list - see <a shape="rect" href="http://electorama.com/em" target="_blank">http://electorama.com/em </a>for list info<div class="yqt0443890783" id="yqtfd51676"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>