Dear James Green-Armytage, these proposals to combine Condorcet methods and supermajority requirements have been discussed in the "Debian-EM Joint Committee" between December 2000 and April 2001.
****** You wrote (27 Dec 2004): > Tally: Do a ranked pairs tally. We'll call the winner > option A. Is A consented to by at least 70% of the voters? > If so, option A is selected. If not, then the status quo > remains in place. In the Committee, this proposal was called "Ossipoff". ****** You wrote (27 Dec 2004): > Tally: Eliminate all candidates who are not in the minimal > dominant set, and who are not consented to by at least 70% > of the voters. If any candidates remain, hold a ranked pairs > tally between them to determine the winner. In the Committee, this proposal was called "Miller-1". Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
