At 5:22 PM -0700 6/13/03, Forest Simmons wrote:
And Condorcet is much better than IRV for reasons that I have tried to elucidate in recent postings. See Steve Eppley's web page for additional explanations of why his version of Ranked Pairs is about as close as you can get to the ideal.
Yes, Steve has a very good analysis (www.alumni.caltech.edu/~seppley) of his version of RP.
The only problem that I have with it is that I still don't understand why it is necessary or even a good idea to hide a genuine tie from those running an election.
It is only (I *think*) his random selection to solve ambiguities that his method differs from the one that I have implemented (http://www.ericgorr.net/condorcet/).
It would seem to me to be far better to simply report the tie and let those running the election to decide how to resolve it.
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