Eric Gorr wrote:
At 8:16 PM -0800 11/14/04, Bart Ingles wrote:
Eric Gorr wrote:
At 7:44 AM -0800 11/12/04, Justin Sampson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:
> Well, it will cause IRV to fail the Independence of Clones
Criterion and
thereby be subject to a spoiler effect again.
Doesn'
Dear Chris!
I though some time about your proposal and have some comments:
First of all, it it not Condorcet, is it? It seems to me that in the
following example, it will elect A though C is the CW:
2 A>C>B
4 A>B>C
4 C>B>A
1 C>A>B
2 B>C>A
Defeats A>B(7:6), C>A(7:6), C>B(7:6), hence C is the CW. N
Hi folks!
In this message, I'd like to discuss beatpath strength vs. beatpath
length and introduce a method (Short Ranked Pairs, SRP) designed to
elect a candidate who has short beatpaths.
As an introductory example, consider 10 candidates X1..X10 with the
following defeat strengths (1=weak, 2=s
On Nov 15, 2004, at 8:42 AM, Eric Gorr wrote:
At 12:13 AM -0800 11/14/04, Brian Olson wrote:
Using the same engine as the Election Calculator I ran the
preliminary data through a collection of election methods. It turns
out that no race was close enough to wind up with different results
when a d
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:
> The only tie-breaker that I can think of in common usage (it gets
> written in to proposed laws) which would cause the implementation of IRV
> to fail ICC would be what I have called "deterministic"...where all
> candidates tied for least votes are eliminate
At 12:13 AM -0800 11/14/04, Brian Olson wrote:
Using the same engine as the Election Calculator I ran the
preliminary data through a collection of election methods. It turns
out that no race was close enough to wind up with different results
when a different method is used. But, if you want to s
At 8:16 PM -0800 11/14/04, Bart Ingles wrote:
Eric Gorr wrote:
At 7:44 AM -0800 11/12/04, Justin Sampson wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:
> Well, it will cause IRV to fail the Independence of Clones Criterion and
thereby be subject to a spoiler effect again.
Doesn't IRV suffer from s
