Yes, I agree that the No campaign to Cordorcet would be "We can't understand it!", not to mention they'd be making the points about voting machines and "It elects the loser!"
(Although I'd like to think that the principle of the Condorcet criterion is straightforward and natural - if one considered having separate elections each between two candidates, and A beat B, and A beat C, it seems hard to argue that B or C should be the winner, not A. But it gets tricky when trying to think how this is decided and worked out in a single election...)
I see your point about the psychological issue. And I agree that tossing a coin would be the best thing to do (I also liked this comment). Hmm, thinking about it - I want AV to pass, just so I can worry people by tossing a coin as I'm making my vote :)
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Date: 2011-04-27 09:31 pm (UTC)(Although I'd like to think that the principle of the Condorcet criterion is straightforward and natural - if one considered having separate elections each between two candidates, and A beat B, and A beat C, it seems hard to argue that B or C should be the winner, not A. But it gets tricky when trying to think how this is decided and worked out in a single election...)
I see your point about the psychological issue. And I agree that tossing a coin would be the best thing to do (I also liked this comment). Hmm, thinking about it - I want AV to pass, just so I can worry people by tossing a coin as I'm making my vote :)