Juho wrote:
In Burlington at least the arguments for Condorcet should be straight
forward. People are already ok with ranked ballot based voting. Many of
them may feel that in the last election the Condorcet winner should have
won. From this point of view Condorcet is just a small modification that
fixes this problem.
Many voters may support going back to the old system since that would
(at least seem to) fix the problem of failing to elect the ("beats all")
Condorcet winner. It would make sense to make them aware that there are
also other ways to solve the problem (= just fix the tabulation method).
There is another problem. Condorcet is *unknown*. Apart from Nanson (and
perhaps Baldwin, I'm not certain), no Condorcet method has been used in
a government context.
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