On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
2010/4/28 Peter Zbornik <[email protected]>
OK, thanks.
Please go on to propose the condorcet, if you think it is the best.
Approval voting was used in the French presidential election, first
round, where far-right nationalist Le Pen got to the second round.
Le Pen was hardly a centrist.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting#Effect_on_elections
Quote:"one study [16] showed that approval voting would not have
chosen the same two winners as plurality voting (Chirac and Le Pen)
in France's presidential election of 2002 (first round) - it instead
would have chosen Chirac and Jospin. To some, this seemed a more
reasonable result[citation needed] since Le Pen was a radical who
lost to Chirac by an enormous margin in the second round."
Peter
I think you're misreading Wikipedia there. Approval was not used;
the passage simply says that some suggest that if it HAD been used,
the results would have been better.
JQ
Read the quote carefully. A bunch of centrist candidates split up the
centrist Plurality vote, allowing for the two non-centrist winners to
inspire all kinds of threats from unhappy centrist voters. While
Approval would have helped some centrists do better, Condorcet
promises to hear the voters better.----
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