I think when mentioning criteria, it's a good idea to also state why those criteria might be important. For example, to me criteria such as FBC and Participation are important because they relate to a voting system's immunity to the Duverger effect.
Approval meets both of these criteria, while the Condorcet methods appear to meet them whenever a CW is present. Borda and IRV fail these criteria under a wider variety of conditions, therefore both would tend to reinforce the two-party system, and to restrict the number of viable choices available to voters in non-partisan elections. Bart Dgamble997 > [...] > As Arrow's theorem demonstrates no electoral system can meet a > perfectly reasonable sounding ( and short) list of criteria. Which > criteria you consider relevant and feel a method should meet involves > some very subjective decisions about what features of an electoral > system you consider important. > > David Gamble ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
