Dear Antonio, you wrote (23 Oct 2006):
> In a single-seat election a perfect race would be between two opponents. > If you vote for one you are definitely voting against the other one and > the worst of the two will always be eliminated. In a two-seat election, > it follows, a perfect election would be between three opponents. Only > the worst could be eliminated. In a three-seat it would be a four > opponent race, and etc... etc... > > It seems to me that basing a proportional Condorcet method off of this > observation would allow any of the currently proposed single-winner > Condorcet methods to be easily extendend into the proportional realm, > simply be replacing two-way races in a single seat election with > three-way races in a two-seat election, and electing the two that > were unbeaten, or only beaten by each other. Vote-splitting wouldn't > happen in such circumstances, so an STV-like transfer mechanism would > be unnecessary. I believe that my proposal gets close to your idea: http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze2.pdf http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze3.zip Especially, read section 5 of "schulze2.pdf". Markus Schulze ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
