Re: [EM] A solution for incomplete preference orders

2007-01-06 Thread mrouse1
I honestly didn't know that (though I should have realized such a simple idea would already be in use somewhere). I'll have to check out Above the line voting. Thanks! Michael Rouse James Gilmour wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 January 2007 16:39 One partial solution is to require all

Re: [EM] A solution for incomplete preference orders

2007-01-06 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 08:39:19 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many vote aggregation methods have a problem with bullet voting, truncated ballots, and multiple candidates ranked the same on a single ballot. A voter should not obtain a better result by *not* showing a preference, but neither

[EM] The best voting methods with honest voters

2007-01-06 Thread Warren Smith
IEVS ran for a few days using honest voters and random normal utilities. I have now also implemented Venzke's vote for and against method (which is not the same as mine) under the name VenzkeDisqPlur; and Condorcet//Approval and UncoveredSet, bringing us up to 39 voting methods. (Your

[EM] http://rangevoting.org/IEVS/IEVS.c

2007-01-06 Thread Warren Smith
Sorry, I forgot last post to say the IEVS source code is available as usual at http://rangevoting.org/IEVS/IEVS.c Warren D Smith http://rangevoting.org election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Clone proofing Copeland

2007-01-06 Thread Chris Benham
Simmons, Forest wrote: Here's a version that is both clone proof and monotonic: The winner is the alternative A with the smallest number of ballots on which alternatives that beat A pairwise are ranked in first place. [shared first place slots are counted fractionally] That's it. This