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Subject: Re: [EM] Why I prefer ranked-choice voting to approval voting<br />
From: "robert bristow-johnson" <rbj@audioimagination.com><br />
Date: Sat, October 15, 2016 12:33 pm<br />
To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com<br />
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still seems that Condorcet -> Ranked Pairs -> Margins is the simplest, mostly fair (doesn't deviate from Schulze-Margins) method to simply adopt this principle: "When more voters mark their ballots that they prefer Candidate A over Candidate B than the number of voters who prefer the
contrary, then Candidate B is not elected."</p><p>i forgot to add the qualification that RP-Margins does not elect a different winner than Schulze-Margins in the case of a cycle involving only three candidates.</p><p>(and, if adopted in governmental elections, i believe it would be ultra-rare
that there is a cycle involving more than three candidates, and in that case, it's such a clusterfuck that any claim that one method's winner is more legit than another method's winner would be a dubious claim.)</p><p><br /><br />
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