Did anybody hear the (US) National Public Radio report this
past week that discussed San Francisco's implementation of IRV? I can't find it
in their archives, and I'm not sure if I heard it on Morning Edition or All
Things Considered.
In any case, they called it "Instant Run-off" but when t
James Green-Armytage said:
> So I am inviting you all to send me some of the most convincing and
> pithy
> arguments against the Borda count. Obviously it is a clunky system that
> is not as elegant as STV or Condorcet, but what are it's overall worst
> effects?
Well, we could certainly take
Dear election methods fans,
My school, which is a pretty bizarre place, uses a pretty bizarre voting
method for student government: Borda!
Christ, I wondered, how the hell did they end up using Borda?
What's even weirder is that they use Borda for multi-seat elections. Hav
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--- Andrew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:51:37PM -0400, Eric Gorr wrote:
> > Do you agree that if an alternative does pairwise beat every other
> > alternative that it should win?
>
> Understood and agreed. But both of those conditions are still met i
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:51:37PM -0400, Eric Gorr wrote:
> At 3:16 PM -0400 10/15/03, Andrew Myers wrote:
> >In Condorcet elections with the beatpath winner criterion, the
> >computation of the beatpath winner involves finding the strongest
> >beatpath connecting two candidates. To compute this o
Andrew Myers wrote:
> If candidate A directly beats candidate B 101 to 100, then the 100 votes
> are thrown out even though there are 100 people who think that B beats
> A. If candidate A ties with B 100 to 100, then both sets of votes are
> thrown out. If A loses 100 to 101, then A's vote are toss
At 3:16 PM -0400 10/15/03, Andrew Myers wrote:
In Condorcet elections with the beatpath winner criterion, the
computation of the beatpath winner involves finding the strongest
beatpath connecting two candidates. To compute this one can run the
Floyd-Warshall algorithm on the vote matrix, but with t
In Condorcet elections with the beatpath winner criterion, the
computation of the beatpath winner involves finding the strongest
beatpath connecting two candidates. To compute this one can run the
Floyd-Warshall algorithm on the vote matrix, but with the matrix
entries corresponding to a loss zeroe
