What if equal ranking at top and bottom were treated as in Symmetrical ICT, but the completion was by Beatpath or Ranked-Pairs, instead of by top-count? If it was Beatpath(losing-votes), or Ranked-Pairs(losing-votes), would that confer CD compliance, avoiding the Approval bad-example?
It seems to me that I once noticed that Smith is incompatible with FBC. The above-described method would meet Smith, wouldn't it? Then I don't suppose it could meet FBC. Could any Beatpath; or Ranked-Pairs method meet FBC? The top-end Improved-Condorcet improvement avoids one cause of FBC-failure, but meeting Smith might cause FBC-failure in another way. So I'm still asking if it's possible to meet FBC, CD, Condorcet Criterion, 0-info LNHe, Clone-Independence, and MMC. Smith is mostly for show, but MMC would be nice to have. If losing-votes has the ability to meet CD, then maybe Symmetrical IC-Ranked-Pairs(lv) or Symmetrical IC-Beatpath(lv) would have a chance of accomplishing that. But all of those criterion-compliances seems like too much to ask, especially if Smith and FBC are mutually incompatible. Mike Ossipoff ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info