On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:20:23 -0500 Paul Kislanko wrote:
I have to interject again.
"Likewise, IRV can suffer spoilers, a problem Condorcet avoids by reading all the ranking in each ballot."
Condorcet does not reference ballots, Condorcet depends upon the pairwise matrix which cannot be mapped back to ballots.
Think:
Mapping ballots into a matrix is a required component of elections when using the Condorcet method.
The mapping required for Condorcet is not part of major competing methods such as Plurality, Approval, and IRV.
At most we are arguing English and grammar, for the spoilers that can afflict IRV when it ignores parts of the rankings are simply not seen as such when doing Condorcet.
Agreed you cannot map the matrix back to ballots so, if for some reason you want to see the ballot rankings, simply keep the ballots around. I would want to see big value in such keeping before I agreed to depending on it.
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