Allen Pulsifer wrote: >>> The total votes is 999. Candidate A, with 499 top >> rankings, is only 1 >>> vote shy of a majority. His two second rankings would bring him >>> across the threshold. Nonetheless, Candidate D, with 2 first >>> preferences and 498 second preferences is the Condorcet winner. >>> Doesn't that seem backwards? >> >> No. > >Welcome to the fringe, Eric.
If D is the Condorcet winner, that means D would defeat A (as well as every other candidate) in a one to one contest. That also means that if there had been only two candidates, A and D, then D would have won. Yet you think A should be declared the winner, which I'm guessing would strike most people as not very democratic at all. You noticed that A had 499 top rankings, but did you also notice that A had 332 bottom rankings while D had only 1? In your subjective take on the results, don't you think that should count for something? I'm guessing it would count for a lot to just about everyone but a few people who are especially fond of IRV and that most people would relegate you, not Eric, to the fringe. -Ralph Suter ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
