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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It's not the *only* meaningful objection. Compared to, say, approval:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It's more complex, including that results can't be given as a simple total.<div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It fails consistency/participation.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There are possible cases where due to the ordinal ballots, a very weak winner can win, such as where there are two main candidates that polarise opinion (with less than half the support each) and a complete non-entity:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">49: A>>>>C>B</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">49: B>>>>C>A</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2: C</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Toby</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 11 January 2024 at 18:45:57 GMT, Michael Ossipoff <email9648742@gmail.com> wrote:
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only meaningful objection to Condorcet is that it’s subject to offensive
strategy, by “buria” (offensive order-reversal) & by offensive truncation.</span><br></p></div></div></div>
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