Mr. Ossipoff wrote in part- I guess my main concern with Condorcet proposals is that it takes some listening, some attention, some study, for a person to understand why one rank-count is better than another. I just don't know if enough people will make that effort.
--- D- Your average friendly citizen-neighbor does NOT have the 200 (???) plus political I.Q.'s of the folks on the EM list. About 40 percent of our fellow citizens are functional illiterates (for a variety of reasons). I guess that another 30 percent are only slightly better in the reading area. Thus -- the only the standard KIS principle (Keep It Simple) likely has a chance for election method reforms in *real* public elections. History indicates the super- deadly danger of having *strong* executives having legislative powers -- Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, etc. Which election methods will reduce / increase the chances of getting such types of folks in high offices again ??? Is Approval rather simple (even for the above circa 70 percent of folks -- and even if it produces *dull* compromise folks) ??? ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
