Dear Donald, you wrote (16 Aug 2003): > I have not seen anything said on this list about the coming > California single seat election for governor. No one is > suggesting that their favorite method should be used instead > of Plurality. What's the problem? Do you sense your favorite > method will fail? I think both Approval and Condorect would > fail this election.
There will be 135 candidates in the upcoming elections to the governor of California. However, I don't see any reason why Condorcet methods shouldn't be used. For example: In so far as Ranked Pairs meets monotonicity, reversal symmetry, independence from clones, and majority for solid coalitions in the general case, it meets, of course, these criteria also in the 135-candidate case. There is no reason why Ranked Pairs should fail in the 135-candidate case. To the paper by Amar, I want to say: In my opinion, the best solution would be to have no recall vote and to treat Governor Davis like an ordinary candidate. Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info