Dear Mike Rouse,
you wrote (6 Oct 2004):
I was just wondering if there were examples of three-way circular ties
in that unwind the wrong way in the Kemeny order. For example, if the
cycle is ABCA, it would put the order as ACB. (There is probably
a relatively trivial example somewhere on the
Thanks, Forest Simmons and Markus Schulze. I thought that was probably
the case for three candidates but I wasn't 100% certain (I've seen some
pretty surprising results in some elections methods).
Thanks again!
Mike
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:05:24 -0700
From: Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EM] Does MAM use the Copeland method?
Gervase L asked:
Just a quick question that should clear up my understanding
of MAM. Is it the same as Copeland (i.e. count each
candidate's number of wins)
Agreed that there can be variations among what is basically Condorcet, BUT:
Voter's ranking of candidates only shows for AB that A is
preferred, over B, but not by how much.
Ranking A=B shows equal liking, and two voters ranking A=B and A=B
have same effect as one voting AB and the
Dave Ketchum wrote:
Agreed that there can be variations among what is basically Condorcet, BUT:
...
Ranking A=B shows equal liking, and two voters ranking A=B and A=B
have same effect as one voting AB and the other AB.
That's definitely not true for any winning votes Condorcet method - only
