Hallo, Dave Ketchum wrote (20 Oct 2008):
> It may be difficult, but useless to claim impossible. > Could start the thinking by considering weighting > the votes from the small states, consistent with > the advantage they get via the Electoral College. Here is my recommendation (how the votes of the voters in small states could be weighted in a Condorcet system): 1. Each voter gets a complete list of all candidates and ranks these candidates in order of preference. The individual voter may give the same preference to more than one candidate and he may keep candidates unranked. When a given voter does not rank all candidates, then this means (1) that this voter strictly prefers all ranked candidates to all not ranked candidates and (2) that this voter is indifferent between all not ranked candidates. 2. For each pair of candidates A and B separately, we determine how many electoral votes E[A,B] candidate A would get and how many electoral votes E[B,A] candidate B would get when only these two candidates were running. 3. To determine the final winner, we apply a Condorcet method to the matrix E[X,Y]. Markus Schulze ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
