Chris first, then Gervase. Chris,
--- Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > A method that seems to perform as well in all your 3-candidate scenarios > with lots of lazy truncating voters, is > Raynaud(Gross) with the tiebreaker suggested by Gervase Lam. (It > could also be called Raynaud(opposing votes) > or Max Pairwise Opposition Elimination). > > This would fail Mono-raise, but at least meet Clone Independence and > (Mutual) Majority. So in my view it is much > better! What do you think? It's an interesting idea that I'll have to put more thought into before commenting. I think the name it would get would be Raynaud(WV). It makes no difference, right? The highest PO score in the matrix is always for the winning side of a contest. When you successively delete the losers of those contests, it seems to me there is no way to ever eliminate a candidate based on losing opposition votes. Since Raynaud is a Condorcet method, Later-no-harm would be lost, and that makes me wonder where it would be noticed. Gervase, >> This occurred to me, but I'm worried about a Clone-Loser problem. It >> seems to me that a party could benefit from running clones, so that the >> opposition votes from the party's candidates have to be plowed through >> one-by-one during the tiebreaker. > >Do you really mean Clone-Loser here? If so, why not just use MMPO on the >tied candidates? I did mean Clone-Loser. I'm afraid I don't understand your suggestion... > (Do Later-no-harm compliant methods inherently encourage random ranking?) It's not passing LNHarm which causes this, but passing LNHarm while failing LNHelp. >Therefore, to me I think random ranking is risky. You might as well put >down your sincere ranking. I agree, if you don't know what you're doing. What I wonder about voter behavior, is whether voters could ever be persuaded to vote "Gore>Bush" or "Bush>Gore," even if it were necessary to keep clever minor candidates from winning. Thanks a lot for your comments. Kevin Venzke Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info