Dear James!
Llull designed election methods under the assumption that there is a
best candidate which only has to be found. Obviously he implicitly
assumed that the voters vote not in their personal interest but in the
general interest to find the best candidate.
As Pukelsheim writes in the text
Dear James Green-Armytage,
please read:
http://www.math.uni-augsburg.de/stochastik/pukelsheim/2001a.html
Markus Schulze
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Hi folks. A quick question:
Does anyone know how Ramon Llull's pairwise procedure worked? Was it an
iterative procedure (voting between options two at a time), or did it use
ranked ballots? Was the aim to select a candidate who won all of their
pairwise comparisons? How did the method deal
