On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Peter Zbornik <pzbor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Condorcet methods have not been used in politics yet, I think.
Not sure if they have been used in politics. However, they have been used by various open source organisations. Schulze's method seems reasonably popular. > Are there by any chance other methods to elect centrist presidents? I would recommend approval voting. For every candidate, the voter says approve or disapprove. The candidate with the most approvals wins. However, it would require a separate ballot for the President. The reason for picking condorcet was to allow the same ballots to be used for both counts. Approval should mostly give the same result as a condorcet method, but you just need to count how many approvals were received for each candidate. I am not sure if it is used much in politics either. A variant is used for election of the general secretary in the UN. The main single seat method is plurality, but that isn't a good method. > The president has to be elected by the delegates as is the case today, if > the proposal should have a chance to pass. > The vice president's are ordered first andĀ second and third. The number of > VP chan vary. The VPĀ are the ones who stand in for the president or party > leader (in that order). > The president and the vice presidents are all member of the board, which > currently has seven members. What about Each voter submits 2 ballots -- approval ballot -- ranked ballot The most approved candidate becomes President automatically, as a separate election. The ranked ballots are used to elect 6 other councillors using PR-STV. The most approved councillor becomes 1st VP, the next 2nd VP and so on. The gives reasonable PR and has VPs as councillors. In fact, if there was 2 wing within the party with 51% and 49% of the members, then it would give them 3 seats each and the President would be elected from the 51% wing. Also, hopefully, a party wouldn't have such partisan sub-parties. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info