If I understand correctly, Beat Path, Ranked Pairs, MinMax, and all of the
other serious Condorcet methods are in agreement (except for the
margins/wv debate) when there are only three candidates: if one of them
beats each of the others pairwise, then that candidate is the winner.
Otherwise, the
It occurred to me that there is another method which is similar to
weighted pairwise, which uses an approval cutoff rather than a cardinal
ratings ballot.
Ballots:
ranked ballots with approval cutoff
Tally:
1. Pairwise tally using the ranked ballots. Elect the Condorcet winner if
one
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, James Green-Armytage wrote:
It occurred to me that there is another method which is similar to
weighted pairwise, which uses an approval cutoff rather than a cardinal
ratings ballot.
My first reaction is that this won't actually break ties. A majority would
like two
Chris--
I'd said:
Actually, IRV is at its very worst when people vote sincerely. Often the CW
can be saved only be the extreme insincere strategy of favorite-burial.
You replied:
At least IRV has some appearance of TRYING to meet this standard.
Electing the CW is far from the only interpretation
Chris Benham wrote:
With a very high intensity ratings ballot, it should be possible to do
without the
plain rankings ballot. With a handful of candidates, why would a sincere
voter want to give two candidates the same
ratings score out of 100, and yet rank one above the other?
Yes,
Brian wrote:
My first reaction is that this won't actually break ties. A majority
would
like two choices, vote them up, the tie would be between them and they
wound up approved on almost all of the ballots. The almost in that
leaves the tie breaking up to a scarce few who happen to draw the
Dear Adam,
I back off on calling plurality a rank system of depth one for the same
reason you dislike calling Approval a Cardinal Ratings system. However I
still will defend calling plurality a one vote system.
Plurality and runoffs (and Random ballot) don't need a checkbox-column style
ballot.
On the Wikipedia election method pages, I've added
ballot images to Wikipedia for three types of voting:
1. One vote - 2 ballot formats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Past_the_Post_electoral_system#Ballot_types
IMAGES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Onevoteballotname.gif
Tom Ruen wrote:
Plurality and runoffs (and Random ballot) don't need a checkbox-column style
ballot. They CAN be implemented by voters offering a single name on a
ballot. Similarly they can work without paper by voters using their bodies
as ballots, moving around a room and joining a single group
