Re: Conlang Flag Design
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 3, 2004, 19:16 |
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On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:12:41 +0930, Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating
Dragon) <dragon@...> wrote:
> Paul Bennett wrote:
>
>> I thought Australia used Instant Runoff rather than Condorcet as its
>> preferential voting system.
>
> I didn't actually read the website you linked to; I simply went from
> your description (the fact that you have to number each candidate)
> and assumed that there's only one form of preferential voting in
> existence.
The system in Australia is Instant Runoff. It suffers from many of the
same problems as a straight Plurality system, tending to prefer a duopoly,
though not as strongly.
For your edutainment:
http://www.electionmethods.org/IRVproblems.htm
Paul