Jameson Quinn Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:00 AM
If I'm right, the claim is that voters, and especially
politicians, are intuitively concerned with the possibility
of someone winning with broad but shallow support. In
Approval, Condorcet, Majority Judgment, or Range, a
Dear all,
I agree with James, and that was why I proposed that election reform
took the path through added election rounds.
Reform of FPTP would thus add a second election round where the
Condorcet winner would meet the FPTP winner. Who in the UK would
object to that?
I described also how to
On 9/22/11 12:40 PM, James Gilmour wrote:
I cannot comment on the quoted remark (cut) that prompted your post
and I know nothing at all about the activities of anyone at FairVote,
but you have hit on a real problem in practical politics in your
comment above - the problem of the weak
From: James Gilmour jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk
I don't think I would have a problem with C winning here, if the votes were all
sincere. But that's the problem. They might not be. A and B supporters might
just be putting C ahead of their perceived main rival. I suppose this is
similar to the
Peter Zbornik Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:41 PM
I agree with James, and that was why I proposed that election
reform took the path through added election rounds.
Reform of FPTP would thus add a second election round where
the Condorcet winner would meet the FPTP winner. Who in
robert bristow-johnson Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:00 PM
On 9/22/11 12:40 PM, James Gilmour wrote:
But suppose the votes had been (again ignoring irrelevant
preferences):
48 AC
47 BC
5 C
C is still the Condorcet winner - no question about that. But I
doubt
Toby PereiraSent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:11 PM
From: James Gilmour jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk
But suppose the votes had been (again ignoring irrelevant preferences):
48 AC
47 BC
5 C
C is still the Condorcet winner - no question about that. But I
doubt whether
On the center for election science mailing list, someone just forwarded a
comment from a prominent member of FairVote. Stripped of the extremely rude
ad-hominem attacks, this is the actual content of what he had to say:
... in the process of trying to pass your preferred system somewhere, you