Dave Ketchum wrote: > Disturbing existing elections by marrying in something from Condorcet seems > very destructive considering possible benefits, so how about: > Run a phantom Condorcet election with current candidates before the > existing voting.
We've coded something like that already, for a similar purpose. I'm not sure our voting mechanism always selects the Condorcet winner (?). But is this roughly what you are thinking? http://zelea.com/project/votorola/home.xht (The code is open source. So the voting UI and count engine could be modified to support any flavour of Condorcet.) > Candidates can drop out if they choose: > Third party candidates have little to lose. > Major party candidates risk static as to why they did not dare. > > Those who choose to, vote via internet. > > Thus we have ballots to count and report on as a sort of poll. -- Michael Allan Toronto, 647-436-4521 http://zelea.com/ ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
