On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Chris Benham <[email protected]> wrote: > STV tries to simulate that in a regular way that is hopefully deterministic > (as in most versions), > and guarantees all voters Later-no-Harm and of course doesn't have the same > possibilities of > bluff and gamesmanship possible in the live version.
I wonder if that 'live' system would end up tending towards condorcet winners. If one candidate had 55 votes and another had 45. Would the supporters of the 2nd candidate switch to the condorcet winner, in order to try to draw away support from the 55 vote candidate. OTOH, if a condorcet winner did end up with only 5% of the first choice votes, they may not even realise that he has a chance. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
