Re: [EM] Steve Eppley's Just-In-Time Withdrawal (JITW)

2013-01-20 Thread Raph Frank
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Michael Ossipoff email9648...@gmail.com wrote: In a 3-candidate Condorcet cycle, for any pair of candidates, only one of those could elect the other by withdrawing. If the other withdrew, that would elect the 3rd candidate. Fair enough, I was thinking of IRV

Re: [EM] Oops! Squeeze-effect.

2013-01-21 Thread Raph Frank
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Michael Ossipoff email9648...@gmail.com wrote: Elimination would start at the extremes. Transfers would be sent inward, until the candidates adjacent to the CW would have collected all of those inward-transferred votes, enough to eliminate the CW. It seems more

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-07 Thread Raph Frank
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Peter Zbornik pzbor...@gmail.com wrote: James, Jonathan, I need that the quoted-in people are quoted-in in such a way, that the proportionality of the election is not significantly disturbed. James Gilmour has the right idea. Elect 5 seats, but don't eliminate

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-08 Thread Raph Frank
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Peter Zbornik pzbor...@gmail.com wrote: Here is an example to illustrate the problem: Coalition 1: 32: w1w4w3m3 Coalition 2: 33: w1w3w4m4 Coalition 3: 35: w2w5m1m2 Thus, the right distribution, intuitively is: 4th seat - m3 5th seat - w5 Is this a

Re: [EM] proportional constraints - help needed

2013-02-12 Thread Raph Frank
What about this rule, if simplicity is required. 1) Run a standard PR-STV election. 2) If the result violates the criterion - permanently eliminate the weakest candidate of the over-represented gender and repeat The first candidate to be eliminated is weakest and the first candidate to be

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