OMG thanks for posting this video along with other Liberal Arts videos... VERY VERY grateful saw many videos and nothing made sense to me but YOUR videos did!
I agree whole-heartedly, but there needs to be another option for those times where there is no Condorcet winner. I would suggest, for these situations, the instant runoff method.
So, for the second example, how would that be resolved by various Condorcet methods? From a very basic design of Condorcet system that I (and presumably many others) have come up with, I would declare B to be the winner (which, incedentally, is the same as the IRV result).
Hardly a drawback as there are a number of options for resolving the situation when there is no condorcet winner. And no single winner voting system will handle a situation where there is no condorcet winner. However occasionally you do get people proposing using condorcet as a voting system without understanding that condorcet alone cannot always produce a winner and that a tie breaker is needed.
There's a number of solid methods that have a simple approach to resolving Cycles. Look up Ranked Pairs or Beatpaths if you like. What the other person said is important to note, though. In real public elections, cycles are extremely unlikely. How you resolve them really doesn't matter since they won't arise. This is by contrast to the flaws in instant runoff voting, which would become apparent in realistic real-world cases.
@lunalover99 Hi luna, I did not create this video, but I might be able to answer your question. Condorcet method is another method for voting. Why would we want another method? Because the most common method, called "First Past the Post" (FPTP) has problems that make it unfair for voters. FPTP is used in elections like the US Presidential race. Condorcet has problems too, but it's still way better than FPTP. For a great explanation go to "youtube.com", then slash "/", then "watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo"
4:00 that is not a drawback, any voting system could yeild a result without a winner. how many real elections would have resulted in no condorcet winner?
It's not true that "any voting system could yield a result without a winner." It's hard to know how often this would happen in "real" elections since we don't have full voter preference data.
