Re: [EM] Proportional Condorcet Voting

[Alex Small]

It's not a question of whether the method can be quickly worked out by a computer.  It's a question of whether the method is transparent enough for an average voter to look at a small set of data and quickly work out who the proper winner is.

 

 

Alex Small

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 15:56:10 -0400
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [EM] Proportional Condorcet Voting
To: "Simmons, Forest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Yes, the objections to Condorcet proposals based on computational
intractability are pretty silly, based only on a theoretical idea
that all possible rankings will exist in the ballot population. But
the ballot population is a limited set, with almost certainly a high
degree of reduncancy. Systems that require all voters to rank all
candidates make it worse, to be sure, but even that will have a lot
of redundancy in it.

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