On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, James Green-Armytage wrote:
It occurred to me that there is another method which is similar to weighted pairwise, which uses an approval cutoff rather than a cardinal ratings ballot.
My first reaction is that this won't actually break ties. A majority would like two choices, vote them up, the tie would be between them and they wound up approved on almost all of the ballots. The "almost" in that leaves the tie breaking up to a scarce few who happen to draw the line between those two choices, OR widespread approval-gaming trying to guess what the condorcet tie might be and how to approval strategize for that set.
Also, the Ranked+Rated Condorcet plus Rated Tie Breaker could be simplified by just casting a rated ballot. Since you made the rule that the rankings must coincide with the relative ratings the rankings can be non-ambiguously derived from the ratings (including equal rating mapping to equal ranking). I generally like it, I think I'll code it up and add it to the Election Calculator.
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