The Condorcet Method (Voting System)

[@YamadaDesigns]

Why’d you make both the voters and candidates letters?

[@MrJethroha]

Condorcet seems like the best for picking an executive position, where it's more important the result is broadly acceptable rather than flat out popular. This system wouldn't be great for legislative offices because Stein doesn't strongly represent anybody's interests or opinions.

[@CarneadesOfCyrene]

There is a completely different set of voting methods for how to get appropriate representation in a legislature. Another topic to cover one day.

[@quleughy]

Sounds like you would most prefer plain old FPtP then.

[@johnmoser3594]

For Senators, you would elect a Condorcet winner; but for multi-member districts you'd use a proportional system (Single Transferable Vote). To elect a proper Condorcet winner, you need to use a good primary election method. Party Primary is terminally broken; you need non-partisan blanket primary by single transferable vote, selecting 7 for a single winner and 2-5 per seat when doing a multi-winner general.

[@mr.greengold8236]

Why would this system not be great for legislative offices?

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

*Quite heavy* detail that should be noted: the Condorcet method (just like other methods that this series discards) can only lead to problems (like the Condorcet paradox) if you really need to elect (or elect directly) no more than one candidate. Depending on the political projects of a certain country, some systems (like for example this one) could perfectly be used to elect the democratic institutions the lawmaker will create.

[@Eccentrick218]

Can you do a Star Voting video?

[@mariaalegriafreirebaez8401]

Could you please include the authors of the videos so I can put them as refferences in my papers. They are just so goood!!

[@jamilanjum374]

nice information

[@HalianTheProtogen]

What do you do in the case where there is no Condorcet winner, or in the case of the Condorcet paradox?

[@pfysche2283]

@@Jtzkb There are some "single-method" Condorcet systems that dont default to another system, like Schulze, Ranked Pairs, Minimax or Copeland. Some are too complex to explain easily in a comment, but if you wanna know how they work, Wikipedia is good enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Single-method_systems

[@dtexdarkus]

@@pfysche2283 Two of the methods, ranked pairs and copeland, are simple enough for a short explanation so I’ll take a stab at it. Ranked pairs is a system whereby you rank every pair wide comparison by margin of victory and sequentially cut out pairings that would conflict with the results of the pairs that rank above it. It’s one of the more popular condorcet methods alongside Schulze due to both methods’ passage of various voting criteria. Copeland is just picking the candidate with the most pairwise victories, usually with some sort of tiebreaker in case 3 or more candidates get the same number of pairwise victories

[@Felicidade101]

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