<div dir="ltr">For the voter, it's just a ranked ballot. The tabulation of the votes is kind of complicated. That's where the pairing comes in. The wikipedia article goes into excruciating detail. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:29 PM, William Park <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So, you sort the options in the order preference. I got confused when<br>
it talked about "pairing".<br>
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William<br>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:50:31PM -0500, Darcy Casselman wrote:<br>
> Condorcet is a ranked ballot, and it's a favourite of voting system nerds.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method</a><br>
><br>
> There are lots of reasons why "choosing one of N options" is a terrible<br>
> voting system, but that's beyond the scope of this mailing list. But I<br>
> encourage you to ask Bob sometime. :)<br>
<br>
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