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What is great about STV-type voting is that just "exploitations" can
be significantly diluted by basically saying "this person has already
been elected, just 'ignore' all other votes for him/her". This
provides at least some protection...

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Benjamin Black <b at b3k.us> wrote:
> Condorcet methods, like all voting systems, have weaknesses that can
> be exploited to influence the outcome in a desired direction (beyond
> the influence of an individual voting sincerely, of course).  The
> choice of voting scheme is certainly interesting, but in no way
> influences the argument that the current system is subject to
> straightforward manipulation in various ways by the most powerful
> participants.  Reducing the attack surface is in the best interests of
> the project and the foundation.
>
>
> b
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:
>> On 08/01/2012 03:17 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:
>>> You are assuming a binary set.
>>>
>>> In the event that :
>>>
>>> 25% vote for A
>>> 17% vote for B
>>> 35% vote for C
>>> 23% vote for D
>>>
>>> If 35% the majority vote is 95% one block of individual, the loudest
>>> minority wins.  This is a problem.
>>
>> We'll be using the Condorcet voting system, as we do for PTL and PPB
>> elections in the past. There is no 25% vote for A or B. There is a
>> matrix of preferences... Wikipedia explains it:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method
>>
>> A Condorcet method is any election method that elects the candidate that
>> would win by majority rule in all pairings against the other candidates,
>> whenever one of the candidates has that property.
>>
>> hth
>> /stef
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