I have on this thread at the CES http://groups.google.com/group/electionscience/t/b135bdc214c39ffa reviewed some known theoretical and empirical facts about the Kemeny Condorcet voting method.
In particular, it appears based on my literature review that humanity, using 2006-2011 era hardware and software, is currently unable to reliably determine the Kemeny winner from the votes in 5-voter, 50-candidate test elections generated by certain reasonable kinds of random vote-generating processes. The Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemeny%E2%80%93Young_method is somewhat misleadingly worded on this point. It makes it sound like no problem, but actually the very paper they cite says quite the opposite. Further comments will be welcome. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) and math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
