Re: [EM] Yet Another Lottery Method

2006-06-25 Thread Jobst Heitzig
usness" of candidates and excluding all candidates who got more than, say, 75% such dangerousness-marks. What do you think about this? Yours, Jobst > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: "Simmons, Forest" > Gesendet: 24.06.06 01:22:59 > An: > Betreff: [EM] Yet Another

Re: [EM] Yet Another Lottery Method

2006-06-24 Thread Simmons, Forest
Ralph suggested that in the example 45 B>A>>C 40 C>>A>B 15 A>C>B the smallest faction might prefer a 100% C lottery to a 55%A+45%B, and in that case approving only C would be better than approving only A. But if 100%C is better than 55%A+45%B, for the A>B>C faction, then 60%A+40%C would b

Re: [EM] Yet Another Lottery Method

2006-06-24 Thread raphfrk
From: Simmons, Forest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This method makes use of ordinal information as well as approval information. So each voter would rank the candidates and also select one candidate as the threshold between approved and unapproved ? All unranked candidates being unapproved. > >1. E

[EM] Yet Another Lottery Method

2006-06-23 Thread Simmons, Forest
This method makes use of ordinal information as well as approval information. 1. Eliminate each candidate X for which there is a candidate Y such that on each of more than half of the ballots Y is approved and X is not. 2. Use random ballot among the remaining candidates to choose the winner