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Thanks for the excellent analysis.

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Aug 20, 2022·edited Aug 20, 2022

A question on ranked choice voting:

Surely you have thought about using a condorcet method.

(Condorcet = if any candidate would will all 1 on 1's, that candidate must win)

During last year's NYC mayor's race the three strongest candidate were Adams, Garcia and Wiley.

It looked quite possible to me that Garcia would be eliminated in the penultimate round and hand final victory to Adams even though Garcia could be the condorcet choice.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_York_City_mayoral_election#Results_by_round

So, it is far from a theoretical concern.

Would the public have trouble understanding?

Would it be too hard to do the IT work?

Surely the whole idea of ranked choice is to produce a condorcet winner ...

P.S. If Garcia had been knocked out by Wiley, and Adams went on to win, we would have been drowned in editorials using the word "condorcet" - maybe such an event is what is needed?

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