[EM] Chris: Forest's FBC/ABC method (MIKE OSSIPOFF)

2011-12-05 Thread fsimmons
Mike is right; it should be called MaxMin instead of MinMax. > From: MIKE OSSIPOFF > To: > Subject: [EM] Chris: Forest's FBC/ABC method > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Chris-- > > I'll describe Forest's proposal briefly: > > It's minmax margins (but it's

Re: [EM] Fwd: how goes American PR?

2011-12-05 Thread Ted Stern
On 05 Dec 2011 12:46:41 -0800, Ted Stern wrote: > > The simplest PR system: open list Approval Transferable Vote. > > ATF for multiwinner elections: Correction, ATV. Blame it on Monday ... -- Ted > > Quota ("easy"): Q = (Nballots + 1)/(Nseats + 1) > > A voter may approve any number of candida

Re: [EM] Fwd: how goes American PR?

2011-12-05 Thread Ted Stern
The simplest PR system: open list Approval Transferable Vote. ATF for multiwinner elections: Quota ("easy"): Q = (Nballots + 1)/(Nseats + 1) A voter may approve any number of candidates. Each ballot is initially weighted as 1.0. Count weighted approval totals. At same time, count weighted a

[EM] David, re: IRV. Chris, re: IRV

2011-12-05 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
David said: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change [two-party dominated system in US] [endquote] How right David is: With IRV, two-party domination in the U.S. will always be with us. My subject-line didn't say everything it should have: IRV is for when there's two-party

[EM] Chris: Forest's FBC/ABC method

2011-12-05 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Chris-- I'll describe Forest's proposal briefly: It's minmax margins (but it's defined as maxmin, with respect to x>y - y>x), looking at all pairwise comparisons, rather than just at defeats. But, instead of just x>y - y>x, it's x top or >y - y>x. As I said in my other posting, it seems to

[EM] Sorry--One more revision of MMT

2011-12-05 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Mutual-Majority-Top (MMT): A set of candidates who are each rated above bottom by each member of the same majority of the voters is a "majority candidate set". If there are one or more majority candidate sets, then the winner is the most top-rated candidate who is in a majority candidate set. I