Mike, > And forgive me if I missed your precise and complete defintiion of your Defeat-Dropper method. Would you precisely and completely define your Defeat-Dropper method now?
The term "defeat-dropper" is a self-explanatory newly coined (perhaps slang) reference to the pairwise methods that "drop defeats", such as Ranked Pairs, Beat Path, River etc.that are all equivalent when there are three candidates. SCRIRVE and Raynaud are examples of Condorcet methods that are not "defeat-droppers". > Plurality passes Non-Drastic Defense. Suppose that "to rank" means " to rank in a rank-balloting system". In that case, no one can write a Plurality example that complies with the premise of Non-Drastic Defense. That means that no one can write a Plurality NDD failure example, and that Plurality passes NDD. Yes, and by that logic, so does a pork chop. Chris Benham Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info