Steve Eppley wrote:
Mike R wrote:
Steven B wrote:
Does this group, or anyone here,
advocate Kemeny's method?
I personally like it the best of all the methods
I've seen, except for the "NP-hard" part. I'll
advocate it without reservation when
I've been pondering how to implement something like Mike Ossipoff's AERLO
idea without requiring a recount, the object being to discourage bullet-voting
and burying tactics and encourage sincere ranking.
Let's assume there is a ranked-choice ballot for N candidates allowing equal
ranking. The
Dear election methods fans,
I've often heard that ranked pairs is Schwartz consistent, but today I've
been wrestling with an example where it doesn't seem to be. Hopefully I'm
just making a mistake somewhere.
First of all, by Schwartz, I mean in particular Schwartz's union of
Hi,
James G-A wrote:
I've often heard that ranked pairs is Schwartz consistent,
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No, but it elects within the top cycle, which is nearly
the same.
As far as I can tell, the GOCHA set in this example is
only {A}. A is surely undominated, and I cannot find any
other
Dear James!
I don't think you made a mistake with that example, only you forgot to
apply some sophisticated tiebreaker to the tie! Both ranked pairs and
river should use Steve's random voter hierarchy technique to resolve
that tie, so that essentially we get another non-majoritarian defeat AR
or
