Re: [EM] full rankings, voter desire for

2005-10-15 Thread Joseph Malkevitch
What are the countries that make truncated ballots illegal and what are the types of elections involved? Thanks, Joe -- Joseph Malkevitch Department of Mathematics York College (CUNY) Jamaica, New York 11451 Phone: 718-262-2551 Web page: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk

Re: [EM] full rankings, voter desire for

2005-10-15 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 10:58 -0400, Warren Smith wrote: I did not say voters always want full rankings. What I said was, I think there is a substantial SUBCLASS of elections, in which, all voters (except perhaps for a few who are insane or writing illegible ballots or something random like

Re: [EM] full rankings

2005-10-15 Thread Simmons, Forest
It seems to me that any method that uses number of ballots on which a candidate is ranked as an important part of the procedure could substitute the following device: Let's say that a candidate has bottom status on a ballot if that candidate is not ranked above any candidate on that ballot.

Re: [EM] full rankings, voter desire for

2005-10-15 Thread Kevin Venzke
Rob, --- Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Here's a related set of questions I've been meaning to ask: 1. Are the Later No Harm (LNH) criterion and the Sincere Favorite Criterion (SFC) mutually incompatible? It seems I've caused some confusion. Sincere Favorite is my votes-only