I don't know if it would get very far, but it would be fun to see how much press a lawsuit on behalf of a losing Condorcet candidate could generate, on the grounds that the ballots show him preferred by a majority to the official winner. Or maybe it should be a class-action suit involving the supporters of that candidate.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Mr. Ossipoff wrote in part- > > There's also the federal Constitution provision requiring equal > protection under the law, and it could be argued that uncounted > pairwise preference votes on a pairwise ballot amount to unequal > protection in that election. > --- > D- Obviously ANY election method determines a winner in a certain way. > > If there is no majority YES requirement, then all sorts of minority > machinations can happen -- as with IRV. > > The 14th Amendment was written in 1866 when plurality winners and > gerrymanders were business as usual. > > Good luck on any 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause anti-IRV lawsuit -- > taking note the EPC was used in Bush v. Gore, ___ U.S. ____ (2000). > > Some elementary education about the mere existance of having YES majorities > and Head to Head (simple Condorcet) must NOW be done.