Political experiment, take 2
Oct. 18th, 2004 02:01 pmThanks to input from
lysana and others, I have revamped the Condorcet voting poll I posted a few days ago. As before, feel free to cross-post this to your own journal or appropriate communities to increase the sample size; despite being self-selected, I hope it will be useful to show any flaws in the Condorcet voting system. I am particularly interested in how unusual voting patterns such as ties and partial ballots affect the total result.
( Explanation of Condorcet voting, and links to party/candidate websites )
The candidates are listed in alphabetical order by party; this seemed the fairest option. You may rank candidates as ties if you wish, or refuse to rank certain candidates at all (thereby assigning them a rank of '8', effectively). If you choose one and only one candidate, your vote will have exactly the same effect as the current single-choice system; I don't want to discourage this, as I am curious as to what effect it will have. At the conclusion of the poll (sometime before November 1st) I will tabulate the results of the pairings and the eventual winner.
::edit:: Results of the quiz (I've left a link up in case you want to run your own analysis) can now be found here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/triadruid/84347.html
( Explanation of Condorcet voting, and links to party/candidate websites )
The candidates are listed in alphabetical order by party; this seemed the fairest option. You may rank candidates as ties if you wish, or refuse to rank certain candidates at all (thereby assigning them a rank of '8', effectively). If you choose one and only one candidate, your vote will have exactly the same effect as the current single-choice system; I don't want to discourage this, as I am curious as to what effect it will have. At the conclusion of the poll (sometime before November 1st) I will tabulate the results of the pairings and the eventual winner.
::edit:: Results of the quiz (I've left a link up in case you want to run your own analysis) can now be found here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/triadruid/84347.html