Message: 6
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:24:41 -0500
From: Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: election-methods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EM] Re: [instantrunoff] Drafft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:11:03 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on instantrunoff:
...
As a first overall point, Kenneth Arrow won the Nobel Prize in part for
proving that every single-seat election system inevitably violates some
reasonable measure of "fairness," in at least some circumstances. It
therefore is possible to find a flaw in every method of voting. That is,
there is no such thing as a perfect voting system ...
Wrong. Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem only applies to RANK methods. Case
in point, CR and Approval satisfy Arrow's narrowly-defined standard of
"perfection" (as suitably interpreted for rating methods).
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