James (and Chris), Something does occur to me:
> --- James Green-Armytage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Yes, this is interesting. However, I suggest that ER-Bucklin(whole) should > > perhaps be tallied in a different way. In the second example, you assume > > for tally purposes that D is in 2nd place on the A=B>D ballots. However, I > > suggest that we should still consider D to be in 3rd place, because there > > are still two candidates who are ranked strictly ahead of D. If we do > > this, I think that B still wins. This isn't consistent with MCA. By the way, I was only considering ERBucklin for the purpose of some simulations. I now officially don't like any of the ERBucklin variants. I would prefer median rating (which is consistent with MCA). The reason I don't like (fractional) or James' variant, is that they still depend very much on the number of candidates running and representing each faction. Kevin Venzke ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger Téléchargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info