Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD vote tallying

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

>"breaking" Condorcet isn't a meaningful thing to say. Adding quorum and
I think we all understand it to mean "causing the system to violate the 
Condorcet criterion".

>supermajority obviously produce different outcomes to Cloneproof SSD --
>if they didn't, there'd be no point adding them. They don't necessarily
>choose the Condorcet winner either, but that's a feature, not a bug.

So, supposing there is a Condorcet winner (who doesn't make quorum), 
and another non-default option (who does), you want to choose the 
*other* option, not the default option *or* the Condorcet option?  
That's perverse, and certainly an extremely undesirable quality of a 
voting system.

--Nathanael