[Election-Methods] IRV-Tournament

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:31:04 - Bruce R. Gilson wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:38:32 - Bruce R. Gilson wrote: [...] As soon as you put in some cycle-resolving system, you will downgrade the preferences of some of these 6

[Election-Methods] IRV-Tournament

2008-07-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:38:32 - Bruce R. Gilson wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:04:19 - Bruce R. Gilson wrote: [...] I wish I could be so sure that cycles are going to be rare. That's the one thing that scares me about

[Election-Methods] IRV-Tournament

2008-07-12 Thread Dave Ketchum
My points are that: Condorcet presents the SAME ballot rules to the voter as IRV - simply relaxed a trifle - a voter could vote by IRV rules, successfully. While Condorcet analyzes the ballot more like what would pass for tournament rules, it will usually agree with IRV as to winner: