James Gilmour wrote:
Ralph Suter > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 3:12 AM
1. Despite your own certainty about how "the real world of partisan
politics" functions, your opinion is entirely speculative with no
basis in historical events, since no Condorcet elections have ever
been held in any major public elections (or even any minor ones I
am aware of).
You are right, so far as I am aware - there have never been any
Condorcet public elections anywhere in the world. That in itself
should tell us something as the Condorcet voting system has been
known since 1785.
Nanson's method was used in city elections in Marquette, Michigan. It
might not be a very large-scale public election, but I think it was public.
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