> Which kind of modern election? Funny you should mention that in the same paragraph as Condorcet (doubly funny that the Condorcet method is considered an inno

> Which kind of modern election? Funny you should mention that in the same paragraph as Condorcet (doubly funny that the Condorcet method is considered an innovation after 250 years). Basically anything after the French Revolution although most of the interesting research seems to have clustered in the last century (eg, Arrow's Theorem which proved that for a some reasonable definitions an elections can't be optimal - apparently only came up in 1950).