Re: [EM] How close can we get to the IIAC (=> "in the absence of cyclic preferences")

2010-04-19 Thread Juho
On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: The same is true of, for instance, LNHarm. If X is the CW, then if a subset of the voters add Y to the end of their ballots, that won't make X a n

Re: [EM] How close can we get to the IIAC (=> "in the absence of cyclic preferences")

2010-04-19 Thread Juho
P.S. One way to use the concept of IAC would be to e.g. set a strict requirement of LNH-IAC to a method but only wish for reasonably good performance with full LNH. Juho On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Juho wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote

Re: [EM] Classifying 3-cand scenarios. LNHarm methods again.

2010-04-19 Thread Juho
/Parliament_of_Norway#Party_groups http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Sweden#Politics Juho On Apr 19, 2010, at 2:28 PM, James Gilmour wrote: robert bristow-johnson > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 4:03 AM I dunno about France, but is that the case in Italy? or Israel? I thought th

Re: [EM] Classifying 3-cand scenarios. LNHarm methods again.

2010-04-21 Thread Juho
uot;Condorcet method" might refer to the behaviour when there is no top cycle or alternatively e.g. to the behaviour of the typical (fully specified) Condorcet methods. Juho On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Chris Benham wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote 17 April 2010: "First, quoting Wik

Re: [EM] MinMax(AWP) and Participation

2010-04-21 Thread Juho
o make the voters feel comfortable with the idea that with the used (Condorcet) method it is wise to just sincerely rank numerous candidates and not truncate (and not try any stupid strategies that might hurt more than help). Juho On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:36 AM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: I do

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-26 Thread Juho
f any such system, please let me know. Paper ballots are safer if you fear that many might not trust a fully electronic system (that doesn't leave any verifiable paper trail behind). BR, Juho Laatu OK, that's the first scenario. Any help answering some of the questions above is

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-26 Thread Juho
needs of the Czech Green party? Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-26 Thread Juho
One more thing. If needed, the method could allow nominating only some subset of all the candidates as candidates for the P and VP positions. Juho On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:45 AM, Juho wrote: I think there are good and well tested single-winner and proportional multi-winner methods that the

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-26 Thread Juho
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Apr 26, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Juho wrote: Draft of a method: - collect ranked votes - use Condorcet to determine P (Condorcet tends to elect a compromise candidate that all voters find reasonably good) - use STV (using the same ballots

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-26 Thread Juho
On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:22 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Apr 26, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Juho wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Apr 26, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Juho wrote: Draft of a method: - collect ranked votes - use Condorcet to determine P (Condorcet tends to elect a

[EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-27 Thread Juho
e: I would prefer to have the P. elected by the same people electing the board. The P. is indeed the person most often representing the party on the outside. Ok, to be included in the requirements. On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Juho wro

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-28 Thread Juho
On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Juho wrote: You assume that there is only one VP. Well, if more than 1 VP is possible, then the election could be - Elect council with PR-STV - The condorcet winner (only including the councillors) is President

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-28 Thread Juho
On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2010/4/28 Raph Frank On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Juho wrote: > Do you mean that voters would concentrate on the first rankings and > strongest candidates? The used method should be such that this kind of > behaviour wi

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-04-28 Thread Juho
hods, some (more) distortion in the P+VPs set proportionality, or maybe some other new (slightly problematic) solution. This might already get too complex, so maybe your proposal to propose some complete solutions to the problem (and list their benefits and problems) after this discussion

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-03 Thread Juho
e of the first vice president position and the fact that use of one ballot is possible influenced my text above. Now I'm wondering how to balance the requirements of simplicity and ease of understanding of the method vs. use of conservative methods. Juho 2010/4/29, Peter Zborn

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-03 Thread Juho
On May 3, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Raph Frank wrote: 2010/5/3 Juho : (What I mean by "distorting effect" is that if you have left, centre and right, and centre has less first place support than the other two, then a good approach may be to elect C if one elects only one representati

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-03 Thread Juho
osed to study also this "one method only" approach (as an alternative to best possible optimization of the proportionality of the council) since the resulting method would be simple and the distortion that it causes could be smaller than its benefits. Juho Election-Met

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-04 Thread Juho
On May 4, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Peter Zbornik wrote: Dear Juho, just some words to avoid misunderstandings. I still would like to be able to propose an alternative method, which elects the council first and then the P and VPs, even though the condorcet winner is not in there (marked as the

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-04 Thread Juho
nts of this one should/could be discussed and proposed as alternative approaches. Juho On May 4, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Dear Peter Zbornik, this is my proposal: --Use the Schulze proportional ranking method. --The top-ranked candidate becomes the president. --The sec

Re: [EM] MinMax(AWP)

2010-05-04 Thread Juho
the Condorcet winner but not necessarily always from the Smith set is that the Condorcet winner is not defeated by anyone but all the the Smith set members are, and they may be beaten badly when compared to some candidate outside the Smith set. Juho Election-Methods mai

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-04 Thread Juho
at is one way of relieving the proportionality related problems since at least the last choice that often distorts proportionality the most can be done quite freely. I'm not sure how big the improvement would be. There may be also other more sophisticated approaches as noted above.) J

[EM] Compatibility

2010-05-04 Thread Juho
ng it incompatible to some (good) criterion that it earlier met. The point is that compatibility with various criteria should often not be an on/off comparison but a richer analysis where also partial and almost complete compatibilities are counted. Juho P.S. Note that there are also criteria tha

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-05 Thread Juho
On May 5, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Dear Juho, I wrote (4 May 2010): This is my proposal: --Use the Schulze proportional ranking method. --The top-ranked candidate becomes the president. --The second-ranked candidate becomes the vice president. --If the first two candidates

Re: [EM] Compatibility

2010-05-05 Thread Juho
On May 5, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: Let's say that there are three different criteria that an election method should meet. They are related to three different strategic voting related problems. As in the world of security also election methods a

Re: [EM] the intrinsic value of the metric of *strength* of personal preference (was: Re: Compatibility)

2010-05-06 Thread Juho
On May 5, 2010, at 8:29 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Juho wrote: In the pairwise comparison based methods we must also take into account the fact that we do not measure the strength of personal preferences, and therefore the decisions that we make are

Re: [EM] the intrinsic value of the metric of *strength* of personalpreference (was: Re: Compatibility)

2010-05-06 Thread Juho
e level of proportionality and viability of the smallest parties across all the districts). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 9 of 9: Conclusion

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
results after the elections.) Juho The heuristics relate to various criteria, but in another sense they function as vague criteria themselves. I'll repeat my conclusion to the long section on strategy here, too. Strategy's biggest effects are not on outcome social utility, but on

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
cere votes (e.g. additional votes vs. clones). Maybe Markus Schulze and others that have worked with and studied Ranked Pairs, River etc. can give some more light on the historical and current motivation. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
he requirements above should pretty much follow the "proportional ranking style") and in the "rest of the council" election. The proportional ranking only approach is simpler but is that a good enough reason to allow the minor distortion in proportionality? Juho

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 9 of 9: Conclusion

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
On May 7, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2010/5/7 Juho My intent was to propose a nonbinding poll which would be conducted on the same ballots as, and thus simultaneously with, the actual election. Any valid vote would be interpreted as an answer in the poll, but this answer

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
On May 7, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: One could discuss which rule should apply in those special cases when both criteria can not be met. In order to determine exactly when we have true clones in our hands we would need to have the original votes, and also

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
On May 7, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Juho, --- En date de : Ven 7.5.10, Juho a écrit : Another characteristic feature of the Schulze method is the use of winning votes. My understanding is that the history behind winning votes is mostly based on strategic voting related

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 9 of 9: Conclusion

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
simplification all the individual voter opinions are equal in strength, worth one vote. As a result voting methods will be fair (all treated equally) and more strategy free although one fails to measure the strength of the feelings of different individuals. Juho As to whether the majority

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party - Council elections

2010-05-07 Thread Juho
ion that same votes are used in all phases. The PR steps are actually just PE steps that elect only one additional representative. We can thus in principle use the same PE method all the time. Relation ">" refers to a serial process and "[ , ]" refers to electi

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 9 of 9: Conclusion

2010-05-08 Thread Juho
On May 8, 2010, at 3:09 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2010/5/7 Juho On May 7, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2010/5/7 Juho My intent was to propose a nonbinding poll which would be conducted on the same ballots as, and thus simultaneously with, the actual election. Any valid vote

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-08 Thread Juho
On May 8, 2010, at 12:43 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: On May 7, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Schulze's primary argument is that the use of paths let one make a method that is very close to Minmax, yet is cloneproof and elects from Smith. Thus, i

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-08 Thread Juho
On May 8, 2010, at 6:32 AM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Juho, --- En date de : Ven 7.5.10, Juho a écrit : *Who* must have considered winning votes to not be optimal with sincere votes? I don't really know what others have thought. My first approach when I first time thought about pai

Re: [EM] Proposal: Majority Enhanced Approval (MEA)

2010-05-08 Thread Juho
candidates and vice versa. Otherwise we might easily lose a sincere Condorcet winner. Juho On May 8, 2010, at 9:32 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: I have a proposal that uses the same pairwise win/loss/tie information that Copeland is based on, along with the complementary information that Ap

Re: [EM] Hybrid/generalized ranked/approval ballots

2010-05-09 Thread Juho
10:0. In winning votes victory 50:40 has the same strength as victory 50:0. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Hybrid/generalized ranked/approval ballots

2010-05-09 Thread Juho
On May 9, 2010, at 9:51 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: thanks, Juho, for this summary. On May 9, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Juho wrote: All classical Condorcet methods can handle equal rankings and their impact has been analyzed quite well. Usually the discussion focuses on how to measure the

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-09 Thread Juho
r than truncation). Truncation due to not knowing enough or due to considering all the remaining candidates to be more or less equal are quite good and sincere reasons to truncate. Truncation due to laziness may lead to distorted results (since all opinions are not measured). Truncation

Re: [EM] Hybrid/generalized ranked/approval ballots

2010-05-09 Thread Juho
On May 9, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote: On May 9, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Juho wrote: On May 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Peter Zbornik wrote: an alternative way to count wins against equally ranked candidates, would be to give both 0.5 wins per vote and not 0 as I did in my previous mail

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-09 Thread Juho
n the other hand I'm sure that we can not fully get rid of it. (I was planning to reply something to Forrest Simmons on this topic. Maybe soon. One key point is that if people don't rank the moderate candidates (plausible winners) of the competing sections then the more radical o

Re: [EM] Meta-criteria 6 of 9: Heuristics. #1, simplicity

2010-05-10 Thread Juho
in itself, truncating the worse of two frontrunners doesn't hurt anything. One counterexample. Left wing has one moderate candidate and one extreme candidate. The extreme candidate has more first place support. If right wing voters truncate the moderate candidate (frontru

Re: [EM] Proposal: Majority Enhanced Approval (MEA)

2010-05-19 Thread Juho
On May 9, 2010, at 2:34 AM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: Here are some more late comments (I was busy with some other activities for a while). Juho, Thanks for your interest and input. Having an approval cutoff to rank just like the candidates is a good idea. On ballots where the cutoff is

Re: [EM] Why proportional elections - Power arguments needed (Czech green party)

2010-05-19 Thread Juho
inary situation first and not directly on how the new method would change the current leadership to something better :-). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Visualizing Covering

2010-05-19 Thread Juho
consider "do as well" and "do better" to be well defined (and they are pretty much so). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Why Not Condorcet?

2010-05-19 Thread Juho
ns)). The method counts how many additional supporters each candidate would need (or have extra) to beat all other candidates in pairwise comparisons. From one single ballot point of view, if one ranks X above Y in the ballot then X will need one vote less to beat Y and Y will need one vo

Re: [EM] Proposal: Majority Enhanced Approval (MEA)

2010-05-19 Thread Juho
laim above. Any Condorcet method that encourages truncation of any of the potential winners carries a risk of making the sincere Condorcet winner lose. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Range Voting in presence of partial information of a certain character

2010-05-20 Thread Juho
nding strong opinion in the reverse direction. (Such weak opinions could be used also to defend clones (or a grouping or a wing). There was some discussion on this on the EM list long time ago.) Juho It turns out that it is impossible to do this in such a way that everybody is perfectly s

[EM] How to combine list and candidate ranking based proportionality?

2010-05-21 Thread Juho
then uses e.g. STV to distribute the allocated seats independently within each party. Juho P.S. Also a tree based structure (maybe to group the parties) could be used instead of a flat list based structure, although this approach can also be used instead of a (party internal) tree structure

Re: [EM] How to combine list and candidate ranking based proportionality?

2010-05-21 Thread Juho
approach is also already close to a tree structure based inheritance (more limiting but easy to understand at one sight). (The "ugly trick" that I mentioned above would in a way allow the voters determine the "candidate- list" (or inheritance tree) of each candidate.)

Re: [EM] How to combine list and candidate ranking based proportionality?

2010-05-22 Thread Juho
On May 22, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: Simple question, simple answer. Use lists between parties (or other groupings) and candidate ranking within them. Open lists try to implement proportionality within the lists in one quite primitive way. Use of

Re: [EM] How to combine list and candidate ranking based proportionality?

2010-05-23 Thread Juho
inked somehow to maintain proportionality (since the president os also part of the council).) In summary I think there are many opportunities in this kind of extensions of the basic proportional methods. The biggest challenges are in complex calculation rules and complex ballots (or complex and tedious filling of the ballots even if the ballots themselves are not that complex). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] The general form of Quick Runoff

2010-05-23 Thread Juho
ged their vote to "C>A". B does not beat A. A wins. The "C" voters were harmed when they included their later preferences. Juho Proof of LNHarm satisfaction: Let's say you were voting B>Y (retaining the meaning of the alphabetical ordering) and you conside

Re: [EM] The general form of Quick Runoff

2010-05-24 Thread Juho
True, I missed the "majority" part. Juho On May 24, 2010, at 10:38 AM, C.Benham wrote: Juho wrote (23 May 2010): > 1. Rank the candidates. Truncation is allowed. Equal ranking is not > planned for (but we could come up with something). > 2. Label the candidate

Re: [EM] Documentation of Methods - Wow look at those insights about drawbacks

2010-05-26 Thread Juho
e not been able to follow properly all the developments and I can't remember all the proposals that have been made. Also here a wiki style approach with good descriptions and classification of the methods could be helpful. Juho On May 26, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Alex Rollin wrote: Everyone on

Re: [EM] A method "DNA" generator, tester, and fixer

2010-05-26 Thread Juho
s (or Condorcet or ranked methods)? Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] A method "DNA" generator, tester, and fixer

2010-05-26 Thread Juho
On May 27, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Juho, --- En date de : Mer 26.5.10, Juho a écrit : The following criterion is similar to Plurality. Does it have a name? If the number of ballots on which X beats Y is greater than the number of ballots on which Y is ranked, then Y

Re: [EM] A method "DNA" generator, tester, and fixer

2010-05-26 Thread Juho
On May 27, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Juho, --- En date de : Mer 26.5.10, Juho a écrit : The following criterion is similar to Plurality. Does it have a name? If the number of ballots on which X beats Y is greater than the number of ballots on which Y is ranked, then Y

Re: [EM] Venzke's election simulations

2010-06-10 Thread Juho
ld peace and clean environment) ... or money". "And" corresponds to "min", and "or" to "max". Juho P.S. Use Mac and Grapher and set parameters to: View / Frame Limits...=>x: 0...1y: 0...1z: 0...1 c = 0.2 a = 0.9 z = c*max(x,y) + (1-c

[EM] What is Range good for (was: A four bit (sixteen slot) range style ballot)

2010-06-13 Thread Juho
study what would happen if there would be some stable segments of voters falling into the different strategic categories. But I will not jump into that for now. Juho On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:53 AM 6/11/2010, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Abd, The best way

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
courage them of put pressure on them since it is better to let the voters decide). BR, Juho Thanks for your advice. Best regards Peter Zborník Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Condocet with many candidates - two round elections considered

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
candidates, and that may lead to some distortion in the results. Juho On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Peter, --- En date de : Mer 16.6.10, Peter Zbornik a écrit : thanks for your view on the topic. In election-theoretic language, what criterion is used to describe

Re: [EM] Condorcet question - why not bullet vote

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
use those exceptional cases in Condorcet elections. For a regular voter in large public elections sincerity is clearly the best strategy to follow. Juho On Jun 16, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Peter Zbornik wrote: Dear all, dear Markus Schulze, I got a second question from one of our members (actuall

Re: [EM] Condorcet question - why not bullet vote

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
t;B If the three C voters will truncate then they will win instead of B in winning votes based Condorcet methods. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Condorcet question - why not bullet vote

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
The described algorithm seemed to make the completion in a "non- symmetric" way, leading to comparing the proportions of the A>B and B>A votes. Juho advocates MinMax(margins) which is why he posted this example Not really because of the minmax part but to cover also margin

[EM] Election calculator / Czech Green Party case

2010-06-16 Thread Juho
rts though :-). I will expand and improve (and otherwise modify, maybe even destroy) the calculator when time allows and I have the energy and ideas. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] truncation dilemma

2010-06-25 Thread Juho
The ordering need not be random. One can use also a tree structure as given by the candidates. Clones and near clones will form branches. The simplest approach is to consider defeats within a branch to be weaker than defeats between branches. Juho On Jun 26, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Jameson

Re: [EM] My Favorite Majoritarian Ordinal Ballot Method

2010-07-05 Thread Juho
not the only reasonable scenario. It is also possible that A voters do not like C although C voters do like A. This is not the most common scenario but sometimes opinions may go also this way. Juho On Jul 5, 2010, at 9:11 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: What if you could have a monotone, clone

Re: [EM] Why Condorcet

2010-07-07 Thread Juho
lead to bad results / bad performance with sincere votes / worse than best winners. Truncation of possible winners is always a risk (=best candidate maybe not elected). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Why Condorcet

2010-07-08 Thread Juho
ibility to the voters? I think in most cases burying is harmful to the method and voters should be discouraged to vote that way (i.e. rank some strong candidates insincerely lower than their sincere ranking is). Juho similarly to voter registration and ballot access to voters bein

Re: [EM] Why Condorcet

2010-07-08 Thread Juho
ion of term "not worth ranking" would thus be "candidates that have no chance of being elected" and not "candidates that the voter does not like". In the first case the method would always pick a good winner, "only" some weak candidate related preference

Re: [EM] Thoughts on Burial

2010-07-09 Thread Juho
ot have sufficient support to justify changing the leader (or other state of affairs) => new elections, or the old leader / state of affairs can be kept for the time being). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Thoughts on Burial

2010-07-17 Thread Juho
oters that would work also in real life, not just on paper. I.e. guidance like "if opinion polls show that ... then vote so that ..." or "since opinion polls show that ... you should vote so that ...". Are there such cases? Are they common? Is it rational to say to the vo

Re: [EM] Thoughts on Burial

2010-07-22 Thread Juho
On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:42 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2010/7/17 Juho On Jul 17, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: To clarify my position: I think that, because of social dynamics which push voter groups towards symmetry (ie, B voters like A as much/little as A voters like B), honest

Re: [EM] Thoughts on Burial

2010-07-25 Thread Juho
will have a long-term competitive advantage and come to be most common. If there are rational implementable strategies. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Thoughts on Burial

2010-07-25 Thread Juho
hen one sums up all the (smallest) violations in all votes (for all possible divisions). The division with lowest score is the best division. Category 2 methods are not be fully strategy free but maybe the strategies are at least more difficult to apply due to the increased complexity :-)

Re: [EM] Thoughts on Burial

2010-07-25 Thread Juho
that would offer best sum of utility to the voters (=> sum of ratings like philosophy) or if one wants to find a winner that can rule the society thanks to having majority support. Juho Random Ballot Smith doesn't discourage burial in this case, in which C retains only 30% of the

Re: [EM] Approval reducing to Plurality

2010-08-29 Thread Juho
ed in real life. But certainly this approach makes Approval better. Juho On Aug 29, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Will Approval just turn into Plurality? Not really, because in Plurality once you have two frontrunners, this pretty

Re: [EM] Approval reducing to Plurality

2010-08-30 Thread Juho
On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:42 AM, Kevin Venzke wrote: Hi Juho, --- En date de : Dim 29.8.10, Juho a écrit : De: Juho Objet: Re: [EM] Approval reducing to Plurality À: "Election Methods" Date: Dimanche 29 août 2010, 16h59 Yes, polls that are arranged before the actual election is an i

Re: [EM] Approval reducing to Plurality

2010-08-30 Thread Juho
just get the same 2-option menu in every district. What kind of election did you refer to? Did the districts maybe have separate elections or separate electors to be elected, or just different set of mind although the votes will be counted for the whole country? Juho Election-Metho

Re: [EM] Approval reducing to Plurality

2010-08-31 Thread Juho
there are more than two potential winners. As long as T1 and T2 are called "T" (i.e. "minor") things are fine. Juho On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Raph Frank wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Juho wrote: What is nice about approval is that even if each candidat

Re: [EM] bullet voting and strategy on Approval ballots.

2010-08-31 Thread Juho
been taken. i know (and respect) that such is the product you're selling. similarly to how FairVote sells IRV. Yes, FairVote and RangeVoting have some similarities :-). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] bullet voting and strategy on Approval ballots.

2010-08-31 Thread Juho
On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:39 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On Aug 31, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Juho wrote: On Aug 29, 2010, at 10:13 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On Aug 29, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Warren Smith wrote: ... long discussion on Approval and IRV ... These foundational problems

Re: [EM] Approval reducing to Plurality

2010-08-31 Thread Juho
e result also when one of the R candidates is much more popular than the other (since all weaker R candidate supporters will not follow the "approve both" recommendation anyway). I agree that some real life Approval elections would tell us better what will happen. Juho On Aug 31

Re: [EM] it's been pretty quiet around here...

2010-09-03 Thread Juho
am not sure how well the multiwinner extention CPO-STV handles large number of votes, seats and candidates although Juho was kind enough to program a web-app. CPO-STV and many other ranked proportional methods are a computational challenge if the number of candidates and votes is large. It

Re: [EM] Greatest Majority is the future of elections

2010-09-03 Thread Juho
. Condorcet criterion can be seen as a generalization of the majority principle. On this list you will find many opinions on which one of the Condorcet methods is best. (You can find also some voices preferring other single-winner methods to the Condorcet compatible ones.) Juho Laatu On Sep

Re: [EM] Why I Think Sincere Cycles are Extremely Unlikely in Practice

2010-11-12 Thread Juho
tronger than random loop (that was discussed above) in the results. Juho P.S. In general I think Condorcet methods will do quite fine in the elections. If we arrange an election among the EM list members, then we might see strategy analyses and even attempts to use some strategy. But in &q

Re: [EM] Why I Think Sincere Cycles are Extremely Unlikely in Practice

2010-11-14 Thread Juho
of Condorcet methods one might often need also the other end, i.e. the one where the voters (or sufficient majority of them) tend to vote sincerely. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Why I Think Sincere Cycles are Extremely Unlikely in

2010-11-15 Thread Juho
From: Juho [snip]. On the other hand we know that all Condorcet methods are vulnerable at least to the burying strategy. All Condorcet Methods? Or all deterministic Condorcet Methods? I would say all... LNHelp is basically a subset of a "burial resistance" criterion and you c

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-10 Thread Juho Laatu
st one on the "remaining" candidates. (One could eliminate more than one candidate at different rounds.) Juho --- On Mon, 10/11/08, Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM] New MN court affidavits by those defending n

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-10 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Mon, 10/11/08, Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM] Three rounds > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com > Date: Monday, 10 November, 2008, 7:59 PM > On Mon, Nov 1

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-10 Thread Juho Laatu
ision making and without too accurate knowledge about the behaviour of other voters the performance of Condorcet methods is very good. (Just checking how one could eliminate some of the problems of sequential elimination (e.g. by using approval and avoid losing the "eliminated" cand

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-10 Thread Juho Laatu
Yes, IRV is a good example. Most Condorcet methods do the comparisons/evaluation just once (when all the candidates are in the same situation). Juho --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM]

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-11 Thread Juho Laatu
place support may be elected.) Juho --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM] Three rounds > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com > Date: Tuesday, 11 November

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-11 Thread Juho Laatu
approaches may be ok too. And use of some sequential approach to break a Condorcet cycle as well. Juho --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM] Three rounds > To:

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-11 Thread Juho Laatu
although B is the Condorcet winner. (The rule that I used was something like "those voters whose most approved candidate among those candidates that they approve is least approved must approve one more candidate (or multiple if ranked equal) except if that would mean approving the most appr

Re: [EM] Popular initiatives and dulling the tyranny of the majority

2008-11-11 Thread Juho Laatu
nk the (numerous) combinations. (The numeric ratings >will determine the order.) Juho --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [EM] Popular initiatives and dulling the tyranny of the majority > To: &quo

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-12 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Wed, 12/11/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM] Three rounds > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com > Date: Wednesday, 12 November, 2008, 3:01 AM

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