Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
All common Condorcet methods work fine also with multiple candidates (although not all methods meet exactly the same criteria). The first problem are probably human behaviour related, i.e. people start hating the voting process if it is too tedious, and they may not rank all relevant candid

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Peter Zbornik wrote: after having presented Condorcet elections to some people in the Czech green party, the following question came up. Condorcet elections might work with three candidates, but what about if there are twenty of them, will the system work and ele

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Peter Zbornik wrote: Dear all, dear Markus Schulze, after having presented Condorcet elections to some people in the Czech green party, the following question came up. Condorcet elections might work with three candidates, but what about if there are twenty of th

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi Peter, --- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Peter Zbornik a écrit : >thanks for your view on the topic. >In election-theoretic language, what criterion is used to describe, that a >method performs as well with many as with few candidates? >There is a list of criterias in the table >at:http://en.wik

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Zbornik
Hi Kevin, thanks for your view on the topic. In election-theoretic language, what criterion is used to describe, that a method performs as well with many as with few candidates? There is a list of criterias in the table at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_with_other_preferen

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi Peter, --- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Peter Zbornik a écrit : >Dear all, dear Markus Schulze, >  >after having presented Condorcet elections to some people in the Czech >green party, the following question came up. >Condorcet elections might work with three candidates, but what about if >ther

[EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Zbornik
Dear all, dear Markus Schulze, after having presented Condorcet elections to some people in the Czech green party, the following question came up. Condorcet elections might work with three candidates, but what about if there are twenty of them, will the system work and elect the best candidate? Q