Re: [EM] favorite betrayal and 2-party domination in Condorcet(wv, =); and about DMC

2005-09-06 Thread Juho Laatu
On Sep 6, 2005, at 04:47, Warren Smith wrote: So. from the point of view of US third parties, 1. all Condorcet methods plausibly lead to 2-party domination, though we cannot be sure, 2. all are more complicated than range voting, and 3. range voting apparently does NOT lead to 2-party dominatio

Re: [EM] favorite betrayal and 2-party domination in Condorcet(wv, =); and about DMC

2005-09-05 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 09:47 PM 9/5/2005, Warren Smith wrote: So. from the point of view of US third parties, 1. all Condorcet methods plausibly lead to 2-party domination, though we cannot be sure, 2. all are more complicated than range voting, and 3. range voting apparently does NOT lead to 2-party domination. T

[EM] favorite betrayal and 2-party domination in Condorcet(wv, =); and about DMC

2005-09-05 Thread Warren Smith
To recount some recent history. I at first had this idea that all Condorcet methods would lead to 2-party domination. I in fact produced a "proof" of that (well, a proof of a related statement, anyhow) and put it on the CRV web site. Then one of the attacks on my proof (by Adam Tarr) was that m