On this list you might find a majority that considers the Condorcet
criterion to be a good target for typical majority oriented single-
winner elections. If one of the candidates is so strong that it would
beat any other candidate in a pairwise comparison, then that candidate
should win. Condorcet criterion can be seen as a generalization of the
majority principle. On this list you will find many opinions on which
one of the Condorcet methods is best. (You can find also some voices
preferring other single-winner methods to the Condorcet compatible
ones.)
Juho Laatu
On Sep 3, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Sand W wrote:
I just joined this list and some of it is kind of bewildering.
1-what is your goal for elections? I would assume that it is to
have the best govt. which presumably can be identified as the system
of govt. supported by the most people.
2- Since there will probably be more than one exclusive/competing
policy/candidate supporter by more than a majority we can call this
goal "GREATEST majority voting."
3- Thus the goal would be determine the best or at least better
structure of govt./voting to require the greatest majority support
possible.
4-This would probably be a combination of local representatives and
executives elected by ranked ballots, "ranked pairs" if possible,
but that counting the system is not realistically practical and the
IRV counting system is realistically equivalent.
I suggest the ranked voting forum for debate: http://4gmv.org/
We would rather not have any new govt. policies unless, at least,
the greatest majority of the population agrees that it hopefully be
the best govt. policy.
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