Ok, thanks. Yes, my misstake. Peter
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.qu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > 2010/4/28 Peter Zbornik <pzbor...@gmail.com> > > OK, thanks. >> Please go on to propose the condorcet, if you think it is the best. >> >> Approval voting was used in the French presidential election, first round, >> where far-right nationalist Le Pen got to the second round. >> Le Pen was hardly a centrist. >> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting#Effect_on_elections >> Quote:"one study [16] showed that approval voting would not have chosen >> the same two winners as plurality voting (Chirac and Le Pen) in France's >> presidential election of 2002 (first round) - it instead would have chosen >> Chirac and Jospin. To some, this seemed a more reasonable result[citation >> needed] since Le Pen was a radical who lost to Chirac by an enormous margin >> in the second round." >> >> Peter >> >> > I think you're misreading Wikipedia there. Approval was not used; the > passage simply says that some suggest that if it HAD been used, the results > would have been better. > > JQ >
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