If range voting is kind of a Condorcet method - and I can see that - then I definitely prefer Condorcet.
By the way: you write,
I began my trip into the election methods debate as a Condorcet enthusiast. It didn't take long before I saw the light.
Do you have any idea how much that makes you sound like a Scientologist? We in science fiction fandom have good and long reason to be wary of that kind of starry-eyed insistence that perfection has been found, and that accounts for a lot of the immediate bristling your posts have been generating. (Have you ever heard of a fellow named Claude Degler?)
Re: Supermajority vote?
By the way: you write,
I began my trip into the election methods debate as a Condorcet enthusiast. It didn't take long before I saw the light.
Do you have any idea how much that makes you sound like a Scientologist? We in science fiction fandom have good and long reason to be wary of that kind of starry-eyed insistence that perfection has been found, and that accounts for a lot of the immediate bristling your posts have been generating. (Have you ever heard of a fellow named Claude Degler?)