On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:11:55 -0500, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 08:21:18PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: >> > In general, people who wish to vote insincerely need to have >> > highly accurate predictions of the outcome of the vote to make >> > sure their insincere vote doesn't result in an outcome less >> > desirable than a sincere vote. > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:28:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> Can you support this with some references to the literature? > Hmm.... Markus Schulze recently published a paper in "Voting > Matters" on the efficient implementation of the voting mechanisms we > use, which also happens to "prove that this method satisfies Pareto, > monotonicity, resolvability, independence of clones, reversal > symmetry, and plurality. From the definition of this method, it is > clear that it also satisfies anonymity, neutrality, Smith-IIA, and > Schwartz." Markus has kindly sent me the paper, and is distributed under the GPL, and it shall be part of devotee. I can forward it on request to anyone on the list; you don't have to bother Markus. manoj -- Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books. Folk saying Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C