<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:22 PM Forest Simmons <<a href="mailto:forest.simmons21@gmail.com">forest.simmons21@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">If people interested in voting methods reform would take the time to digest these basic facts about Yee diagrams ... and then believe their own eyes .... they would never accept any "ranked choice voting" method unless it satisfied the Condorcet Criterion ... even if it had to be grafted with duct-tape and baling wire onto the front end of the proposed method .... but how much better if incorporated seamlessly!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Pretty easy fix ... lots of bang for the nickel!</div></div>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">+1 :-D</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">I've been a fan of Condorcet for decades but I only discovered Yee diagrams recently. I was shocked at how bad IRV is. It's shocking that a candidate can be right at the center of the voter distribution and somehow lose.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheers,</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dr. Daniel Carrera</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Postdoctoral Research Associate</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Iowa State University</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>