Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need
by tunesmith on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @05:08PM
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I've never understood the criticism that Condorcet is hard to understand. If one candidate would beat all others head-to-head, that candidate wins. That's it.
The weirdness comes in the strange tiebreaker methods if there's a "loop", but when you have a lot of voters, loops are rare.
(Condorcet proponents would probably get more mileage if they had a better conceptual split between methods that identify the Smith Set, and methods that seek to award single winners of multi-member Smith Sets - those "tiebreakers" are where all the problems happen, and none of those flaws are relevant in elections where there is a Condorcet Winner.)
The weirdness comes in the strange tiebreaker methods if there's a "loop", but when you have a lot of voters, loops are rare.
(Condorcet proponents would probably get more mileage if they had a better conceptual split between methods that identify the Smith Set, and methods that seek to award single winners of multi-member Smith Sets - those "tiebreakers" are where all the problems happen, and none of those flaws are relevant in elections where there is a Condorcet Winner.)