On 03/05/2011 12:52, Robin wrote:
The downside to Condorcet, of course, is that there are multiple
rounds of voting - with all the hassle, disruption and expense
involved.

Is that right? I thought it could work by using exactly the same ballot
paper as AV but with the votes counted differently to give a result in
one round in all but a minority (around 1 in 10?) of elections. See eg
http://www.accuratedemocracy.com/c_tally.htm or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_criterion

But I could well be wrong. Or of course outvoted

You are not wrong but may well be outvoted by all the FPTP supporters. ;-)

ISTR that Condorcet is the method used to elect the uk Usenet committee.
I can't see how such a horrendously complicated system could be
implemented until all voting is done by electronic means even though it
probably is by far the fairest system around.


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Roger Chapman