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* If the goal of democracy is to represent the population as a whole, with all its agreements and disagreements, ranked methods are sub-optimal. If the goal of democracy is to promote the ideals of the dominant faction, established largely arbitrarily on the spot, then ranked methods suit this goal.
* Condorcet methods are designed to make the best use of limited ranking information to find the consensus.▼
* More generally, forcing voters to take sides destroys consensus and agreements. The corollary of this is that [[Instant-Runoff Voting]] is anti-consensus.
▲* Condorcet methods are designed to make the best use of limited ranking information to find the consensus.
== Final remarks ==
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