On Jun 23, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote:
--- Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit�:Whee, a bit more hacking and now Condorcet is implemented with both Winning-Votes beatpath and Margins beatpath.
A recent example can be seen as:
*49 A *24 B *27 C>B
http://bolson.org:8080/v/et?vrr=-clist&if=- cname&cand=3&data=*49+A%0D%0A*24+B%0D%0A*27+C%3EB
I followed this link. There are an awful lot of methods supported.
The Bucklin result is very strange:
Bucklin: B 75.5, C 63.5, A 61
I have to admit I didn't think ER-Bucklin(fractional) could even be defined.
Bucklin can be expressed as:
In round N add the Nth ranking votes to the tallies for the choices. Starting at 1, repeat until a choice's tally is greater than 1/2 the number of voters. The highest tally is the winner.
I added to this:
If a voter has not marked a Nth rank choice, distribute 1 vote across the choices which the voter has not ranked.
I think this modification deters truncation.
The voter who just votes A as 1st choice out of A,B,C, in the second round 1 vote is split between B and C. It is also flexible enough to vote A=1st, D=4th. Then in the second and third rounds that vote is split between B and C but not D.
I added Bucklin truncative so you can compare it to Bucklin distributive. In that example it didn't change the winner, but did switch 2nd and 3rd.
Brian Olson http://bolson.org/
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