Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-05-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:38 PM 5/12/2006, Simmons, Forest wrote: So most of the time, in the context of Candidate Published Orderings, Concorcet will yield an unambiguous social ordering of the candidates, with no cycles to resolve. More importantly (and precisely) it means that if the four candidates

Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-05-13 Thread Steve Eppley
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 10:38 PM 5/12/2006, Simmons, Forest wrote: -snip- So most of the time, in the context of Candidate Published Orderings, Concorcet will yield an unambiguous social ordering of the candidates, with no cycles to resolve. -snip- I would say that's amazing, and

[EM] Voting by selecting a published approval list

2006-05-13 Thread Steve Eppley
Here's another simple voting method: Prior to the election, each candidate publishes a list of approved candidates. On election day, each voter selects a candidate. Each vote is tallied as if the voter had approved each candidate listed by the selected candidate. The

Re: [EM] Electoral College

2006-05-13 Thread Steve Eppley
Ralph Suter wrote: On May 4, Steve Eppley wrote: Could Article I. Section 10 of the US Constitution interfere with that scheme? No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact

Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-05-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:47 PM 5/13/2006, Steve Eppley wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 10:38 PM 5/12/2006, Simmons, Forest wrote: -snip- So most of the time, in the context of Candidate Published Orderings, Concorcet will yield an unambiguous social ordering of the candidates, with no cycles to