Re: [EM] Ranked Preferences, example calculations

2006-10-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:13 AM 10/29/2006, Chris Benham wrote: >CB: No.I see "group decision making process" as spread out along a >continuum with "informal consensus" >at one end and civil war or violent "mob rule" at the other. Abd >sees elections as (in his view undesirably) >substituting for consensus and wants

[EM] RE : Re: Ranked Preferences, Range

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hello, --- Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Range has no real "majority-rule" related guarantees, except a very > unimpressive weakened > version of Minimal Defense that means that for a majority to block the > election of X they > must both give X a minimum rating and some other ca

Re: [EM] Ranked Preferences, example calculations

2006-10-29 Thread Chris Benham
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:34 PM 10/27/2006, Chris Benham wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: That is, healthy group decision process follows certain general principles. The Majority Criterion neglects an important part of this. That is beca

Re: [EM] Addendum to condorcet method theory

2006-10-29 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Antonio, you wrote (23 Oct 2006): > In a single-seat election a perfect race would be between two opponents. > If you vote for one you are definitely voting against the other one and > the worst of the two will always be eliminated. In a two-seat election, > it follows, a perfect election w