Forest, and anyone interested, I made an interesting but still possibly discouraging discovery. Check out these results for Borda-Elimination (standard 5-faction, 9-candidate setup):
matches 16246 sdindec 507 3.12 be<>cw 0 0 <-- !!! be=cw 10142 62.42 unanimous 1537 9.46 be=borda 496 3.05 be=sd 1721 10.59 borda=sd 1266 7.79 no matches 577 3.55 Not even once! I'm in disbelief. Of course in these simulations I can't check vulnerability to strategy and clones (probably significant). But even with such limitations, it is amazing to find a non-Condorcet method that so consistently picks the CW. It would be interesting to study those cases where "BE" does not agree with RP. I wonder if BE's result in such cases is just erratic and senseless, or if there's a reasoning behind it. Kevin Venzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info