Dear Alex, you wrote (20 Jan 2003): > Mike Ossipoff wrote (20 Jan 2003): > > Nanson was used in Wisconsin for a while. So far as I know, > > the only Condorcet Criterion method ever used in public > > political elections. > > When was this? For what elections? I'm originally from > Wisconsin. I'm curious why it was adopted and why it was > abandoned. Anyway, if you can point me to a reference (be > it on the web or from a library) that would be great.
Hoag and Hallett wrote (Clarence Gilbert Hoag, George Hervey Hallett, "Proportional Representation," MacMillan Company, New York, page 491, 1926): > The Nanson system gives the voter an opportunity of expressing > as many choices as he pleases, the form of ballot recommended > being like that used for the single transferable vote. But the > rules for transfer provided under the single transferable vote > are replaced under the Nanson system by rules for deducing the > result arithmetically from the figures marked on all the ballots. > The only place where this system is used for public elections, > so far as we know, is the city of Marquette, Michigan. There > it is applied to the election of all city officials. Wakefield, > Michigan, also adopted it, but has never used it because of > doubts as to its constitutionality. Markus Schulze ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
