Dave Ketchum wrote:
The first N*N matrix below is what I was talking about - it takes the
information from the FPTP votes and records that as if bullet votes.
Note that this example matrix is complete only for only three
candidates. If there were seven candidates the matrix would be bigger,
showing A, B, and C ranking over the other four.
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:18:00 +0200 Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
[snip]
That's the "consider bullet voters" idea. The other one is to count
the plurality vote locally, so you get:
100: Able > Baker > Charlie
BUT, the FPTP voters could not express such thoughts.
That's right, they could not. This would simply be the result of the
Plurality election (for that district), turned into a preference
ordering of magnitude equal to the number of voters in that district.
Such a generalization would work no matter what method you'd use (even
IRV), but it'd be suboptimal since it compresses down the data of all
the voters into a single preference, whereas with FPTP-as-Condorcet,
you'd get the data directly.
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