Forest Simmons wrote (Sun Jul 6 16:36:32 PDT 2008 ):
There is a lot of momentum behind IRV. If we cannot stop it, are there some
tweaks that would make it more liveable?
Someone has suggested that a candidate withdrawal option would go a long way
towards ameliorating the damage.
Here's another
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:31:34 -0600 Kathy Dopp wrote:
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:36:32 + (GMT)
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There is a lot of momentum behind IRV. If we cannot stop it, are there some
tweaks that would make it more liveable?
Hi Forest.
I think we can stop that madness. I belie
Hi Forest,
--- En date de : Dim 6.7.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> There is a lot of momentum behind IRV. If we cannot stop
> it, are there some tweaks that would make it more liveable?
My idea is to cripple it:
1. The voter ranks a first preference and a second preferenc
Hi Juho,
--- En date de : Lun 7.7.08, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> > Hi Juho,
> >
> > --- En date de : Jeu 3.7.08, Juho
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> >> That scenario was the simplest I could imagine.
> Only three
> >> candidates. One strong candidate but below
> majority, one
> >> wea
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> There is a lot of momentum behind IRV. If
Jobst,
What about this method that doesn't even draw a ballot unless it first
eliminates the approval winner?
1. Let x be the percentage of the ballots approving the approval winner X.
2. Elect X with probability g(x), else elect the favorite of a randomly drawn
ballot.
This method la
Dear Jobst,
After submitting it I realized that my most recent proposal (repeated below) is
not monotone. If I am not
mistaken, a change in the definition of "friend" would fix it, but then the
word "ally" would be more
appropriate.
New Definition: Two ballots (that indicate both favorite a
Few notes.
In some cases having an opposition may be a positive thing. E.g.
having always the same government may not be a good thing in the long
run.
One approach is to use some single winner method to determine the
preferred coalition that should form the government (I'm assuming a
mu
On Jul 6, 2008, at 5:48 , Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hi Juho,
--- En date de : Jeu 3.7.08, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
That scenario was the simplest I could imagine. Only three
candidates. One strong candidate but below majority, one
weaker
runner-up, and third clearly weaker candidate. This
