On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Chris Benham wrote: > Forest, > I am interested in any comment you have on this method (that I posted > Sun.Dec.21, 2003). > I didn't steal one of your ideas, did I ?
No, but I wish I could claim it ... especially your idea of minimal adjustment of approval cutoffs to keep all possible ballots relevant. My idea for keeping all ballots relevant was to use dyadic approval ballots or (equivalently) adjusting (at every stage) the approval cutoff to the exact halfway mark between the two most extreme CR values still in play on the CR ballot. Your idea is simpler, in that it doesn't require CR ballots or dyadic approval ballots, and better in that it makes the minimal adjustment necessary to keep all of the ballots relevant, thus more nearly reflecting the original approvals of the voters. Forest ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
