On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:52:02PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Does the order after FD count? If I'd rank 1 and 5 below FD, with 1 > below 5, and later both reach quorum, would my ranking of 1 below 5 be > taken into account in the 1-vs-5 run, just as if I had ranked them both > above FD, or not? Yes, the Condorcet voting system compares each pair of two options, disregarding the choices about the other options. The only information used from the ballot is which one is higher, not how much higher. If people are talking about "strategic voting", it can (AFAICS) only be about the situation where there is no clear winner (no option wins over all other options). When that happens, there are several ways to solve it. I don't really know which one we use, and I don't care either, because it's a very rare situation. There is one real missing piece of information on the ballot though: the importance of a difference. You can say "I don't care if it's option A or B" and you can say "I like option A very much more than option B". But you can't say "I like option A a little bit more than option B". This should mean that in the race between A and B, A get a fraction of a point instead of a full point. I think it would be possible to add this information to the ballot, but it would make voting much more complicated, with hardly any gain. Hope this helps, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://a82-93-13-222.adsl.xs4all.nl/e-mail.html
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