Re: OT: For information only !

En réponse à Paul Bennett :


>>IRV does have problems, though. Just from a practical standpoint, you
>>have to keep a copy of each ballot--simple tallying doesn't work. I'm
>>more of a Condorcet Voting supporter, myself.
>
>Yeah. Condorcet rocks.
Just checked it (Google is your friend). Interesting, but the complication 
of the system makes it unlikely to be accepted by the voters. With the 
simple run-off system, the amount of votes is what counts, not some more or 
less complicated algorithm. Not that the algorithm may be wrong or not, but 
most people won't understand it and will thus distrust its results (I know 
I would, if I didn't understand it, and I'm sure a sizeable amount of the 
population of any country would).

>  It solves just about every problem you care to
>mention with both "normal" and IR voting. Trouble is, it's likely to lead
>to the two-party duopoly being broken, and that means it will never so
>much as reach committee (or the equivalent stage) in most countries.
In what way is that a bad thing? ;) Well, you may rethink your "most". Most 
democratic countries I know have more than two main parties. Anglo-Saxon 
countries (especially the US) are an exception rather than the rule.

But as I said, I think the method would not be accepted because it wouldn't 
be trusted by most people.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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