One could say that Condorcet has by now been well tested in various
non-governmental elections. Maybe they are credible enough??
There may be some additional problems too. I hope the already existing
procedures of IRV to digitize the ballots and collect that data can be
easily reused (or corresponding ones developed).
Juho
On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:59 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Juho wrote:
In Burlington at least the arguments for Condorcet should be
straight forward. People are already ok with ranked ballot based
voting. Many of them may feel that in the last election the
Condorcet winner should have won. From this point of view Condorcet
is just a small modification that fixes this problem.
Many voters may support going back to the old system since that
would (at least seem to) fix the problem of failing to elect the
("beats all") Condorcet winner. It would make sense to make them
aware that there are also other ways to solve the problem (= just
fix the tabulation method).
There is another problem. Condorcet is *unknown*. Apart from Nanson
(and perhaps Baldwin, I'm not certain), no Condorcet method has been
used in a government context.
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