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Subject: Re: [EM] smith/schwartz/landau<br />
From: "Curt" <accounts@museworld.com><br />
Date: Wed, March 28, 2018 1:08 pm<br />
To: "EM" <election-methods@lists.electorama.com><br />
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> Number of voters in a margin is meaningless to Condorcet methods. All that matters is whether a majority is reached. Beyond that, it is impossible to characterize that majority.</p><p>well, we have an ancillary concept in elections that we sometimes call "mandate". seems to me
that margin has something to do with an election winner's mandate.</p><p>> Incidentally, this does point to what I believe *is* a major downside of a Condorcet method - it’s by definition entirely unsuitable for figuring proportional representation, ...</p><p>are we discussing single winner
elections here or multi-winner elections?</p><p>> ... because that again would imbuing vote margins with utility concepts.</p><p>if we accept the premise of One-Person-One -Vote, which assigns equal utility to each voter's preference, seems to me that margins are directly related to overall
utility for the voting population.</p><p><br />--<br />
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