Warren Smith wrote:
Hello.
It appears the Romanian 2009 presidential election, which just (allegedly) ended
with Basescu winning re-election, involved two different Condorcet
top-cycles involving
4 candidates.
The winner Basescu (elected via plurality+top2runoff) unfortunately
probably was the worst choice among the four (based on both pairwise
table based on numerous pairwise polls and the official results; and
also on an approval-style poll; I am unaware of any range-voting-style
poll).
Runoff-style voting (and plurality voting too -- Basescu won the 1st
round) both severely distorted democracy in this election and also
both elected probably the worst winner among the 4.
Do you have the Condorcet matrices for those polls? It would be
interesting to see what the good Condorcet methods (RP, River, Schulze,
etc) say - who they pick as the winner, assuming the polls are accurate.
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