[EM] proxy ideas: continual consideration, and proxy committees

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas von der Elbe
Hello James, I am Thomas from Germany. Sorry if my English is a bit strange. I am also a member of the Votorola-Project. I like very much, that you are doing theoretical work on this subject. As far as I'm aware, this is quite needed. In your paper you write about the one benefit of delegate

Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-04-07 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote: This is some thought about keeping it simple, yet doable. I will lean toward Ranked Pairs with margins, not sure what "with margins" does. i'll read below... but amending toward other types of Condorcet should be doable. Voting: Voter can

Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-04-07 Thread Dave Ketchum
Thanks - there are so many Condorcet methods that I chose to describe what I see as a better one, while giving up on getting understood via naming. On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, Dave Ketchum (7 April 2010): For RP I see deleting the smallest margins from the li

Re: [EM] Condorcet How?

2010-04-07 Thread Markus Schulze
Hallo, Dave Ketchum (7 April 2010): > For RP I see deleting the smallest margins from > the list until what remains is not a cycle, but > does identify a winner. "Deleting the smallest margins from the list until what remains is not a cycle" rather sounds like the Schulze method. Markus Schulze

[EM] Condorcet How?

2010-04-07 Thread Dave Ketchum
This is some thought about keeping it simple, yet doable. I will lean toward Ranked Pairs with margins, but amending toward other types of Condorcet should be doable. Voting: Voter can rank one or more candidates. Equal ranking permitted. Counters care only which of any pair of candidate