Here's my 36 ungrammatical words: IRV:
Eliminate candidate that is prefered (excluding eliminated candidates) of fewest voters. Repeat. Approval: Vote for any number of candidates. Candidate receiving most votes wins. Condorcet (ignoring cycles): Simulate all runoffs using ranked ballots. Elect candidate that wins all runoffs. --- Another challenge would be describing a method fully and clearly (including definition of terms liked "ranked ballots", an example, strategy and related discussion, and subtleties like tiebreaking and cycle resolution) in as few 80-character lines as possible. Here's a rough guess as to how many lines each method would take: Approval: 25 IRV: 40 Condorcet: 50 -wjs On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Adam Tarr wrote: >I'd be interested in a 12-word IRV explanation.... I don't think that's > >possible, either. > > Derive successive plurality eliminations from ranked ballots, eliminating > one candidate each round. /-----------------------------------------\ | Warren Schudy | | WPI Class of 2005 | | Physics and computer science major | | AIM: WJSchudy email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://users.wpi.edu/~wschudy/ | \-----------------------------------------/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info