[EM] Your votes-only criterion is not equivalent to SDSC.

2004-02-03 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Markus-- You said: so far as election methods are defined only on the cast preferences and not on the sincere preferences, whether a given election method satisfies a given criterion must be reflected in the way this method uses the cast preferences. Therefore, there is no need to include the

Re: [EM] Your votes-only criterion is not equivalent to SDSC.

2004-02-03 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Mike, your latest mail doesn't make any sense in so far as you wrote several times that you don't want me to suggest how to word things. Therefore, I suggest that you should look e.g. how Steve Eppley words things: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~seppley Markus Schulze Election-methods

[EM] Long Term CR strategy

2004-02-03 Thread Alex Small
It is often asserted that Cardinal Ratings is strategically equivalent to Approval Voting. In the context of a single election I completely agree. You're either going to do everything you can to help a candidate win, or else you won't. However, I have argued in the past that when one takes a

RE: [EM] Extremely simple voting for committee

2004-02-03 Thread Gervase Lam
From: James Gilmour Subject: RE: [EM] Extremely simple voting for committee Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:30:24 - It seems to me to be a simple Yes / No ballot.  I accept the Committee as it stands or I do not accept the Committee as it stands. (What happens if the majority of those who

[EM] Re: Multi-Winner Approval Strategy

2004-02-03 Thread Gervase Lam
For 0-info, I am almost convinced that Vote for the above-mean candidates is the strategy to use. I'll start from the beginning. (Note that what I'll be doing won't be exactly how Weber presents his calculations inpublications.) In order to work out what a voter should put on an Approval

[EM] BeatpathWinner fails Markus' SDSC.

2004-02-03 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Markus-- Not only does Plurality pass your SDSC, but BeatpathWinner fails it: AB51, BC52, CA52 B wins in BeatpathWinner, though more than half of the voters have ranked A over B. Your critrerion only applies if votes are admissible. I don't know what admissible means, but, by any reasonable