Forest wrote: > CRAB stands for Cumulative Repeated Approval Balloting. > The ballot-by-ballot mode is automatically "Cumulative." > The "batch mode" of Lorrie Cranor is not cumulative.
That's correct. I wasn't clear that I wasn't talking about CRAB in my last post. > I believe that CRAB will eventually find an equilibrium with C in first > place in David's example. My calculation agrees. C is chosen by CRAB with strategy A. > What is the function of "last own vote?" Nothing important, really, but it's used to implement what I call strategy B (the Poll Assumption in section 7.4 of Approval Voting by Steven Brams) and strategy I (adjust your previous Approval strategy just enough to differentiate between the latest top two candidates). ===== Rob LeGrand, psephologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizens for Approval Voting http://www.approvalvoting.org/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info