Re: [EM] New Condorcet/RP variant

2004-11-04 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Paul, your Condorcet/RP variant sounds like Steve Eppley's minimize thwarted majorities (MTM) method. Markus Schulze Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] More easily hand-counting three-slot Condorcet

2004-11-04 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hello all, I accidentally came up with an easier way to hand-count three-slot Condorcet. By easier I mean fewer tally marks (potentially by far) per ballot. The intuitive way to count Condorcet methods is to take a ballot, and mark a vote in a matrix at X,Y for every candidate X ranked above