Russ, --- Russ Paielli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me define a variation of Approval Voting with the same voting > procedure as standard Approval Voting but a different tally procedure. > I'll call it Pairwise Approval Voting (PAV). > > The tally procedure starts with the construction of a pairwise matrix > from the ordinal information in each vote. That is, if candidate i is > approved and candidate j is unapproved, then the (i,j) element gets a > one and the (j,i) element gets a zero. The "regular" approval counts go > on the diagonal. The CW wins if one exists, otherwise the least-approved > candidate is dropped until a CW is found. > > Has this or a similar method been proposed before? > > Do you consider it better than, worse than, or equivalent to, standard > Approval Voting? Why?
Equivalent. The first method I suggested on this list did count approval ballots in this way, though. I proposed to find the winner using Minmax(Pairwise Opposition): http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/MMPO It might be interesting to have the approval matrix to look at after the election. It would make the count (especially a hand-count) more difficult, though. 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