Re: [EM] Threat/Promise Approval strategy. Summary of strategies.

2005-02-12 Thread Russ Paielli
Paul Kislanko kislanko-at-airmail.net |EMlist| wrote: At the risk of showing my ignorance again, Choice of Approval strategies depends largely on what you prefer to estimate. Somehow I think there should be a way to label posts that are about "strategies that voters should employ for a given elec

RE: [EM] Threat/Promise Approval strategy. Summary of strategies.

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Kislanko
At the risk of showing my ignorance again, > > Choice of Approval strategies depends largely on what you prefer to > estimate. Somehow I think there should be a way to label posts that are about "strategies that voters should employ for a given election method" as opposed to "this election metho

[EM] Threat/Promise Approval strategy. Summary of strategies.

2005-02-12 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Choice of Approval strategies depends largely on what you prefer to estimate. I suggested a strategy that I called Expected Differences, which, for deciding whether to vote for candidate X, requires judging the probability that X will be in a tie or near-tie with someone better, or someone wor

Re: [EM] How to break this tie?

2005-02-12 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Nathan, I have attached a copy of my 8 June 1998 mail to Mike Ossipoff where I criticize Ossipoff's subcycle rule #2. Markus Schulze > Mon Jun 08 16:40:30 1998 > To: Mike Ossipoff > From: Markus Schulze > Subject: Re: better letter > > Dear Mike, > > you wrote (8 Jun 1998): > > For the init

[EM] Re: Candidate withdrawal option

2005-02-12 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
James-- Yes, it seems to me that the candidate withdrawal option would help any voting system. It would avoid the worst of Plurality & IRV, and it would tend to complete the perfection of Condorcet(wv). When the subject was being discussed on EM a few years ago, I was saying that the candidate

RE: [EM] Iterative quota voting

2005-02-12 Thread James Gilmour
Jim Ronback> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:44 AM > > I am very uncomfortable with complexity of the process used for > transferring surplus marks of the candidates in the STV counting > process. That counting process is very difficult for most voters to > follow. It is probably the case

Re: [EM] How to break this tie?

2005-02-12 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Nathan, you wrote (11 Feb 2005): > Was the example for how this violated Pareto posted > to the list? No. I posted this example in a private mail to Mike Ossipoff ca. on 12 June 1998. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of this mail. Markus Schulze Election-methods mailing list - see ht

[EM] candidate withdrawal option and burying

2005-02-12 Thread James Green-Armytage
Hi folks, I've been trying to imagine how the candidate withdrawal option (CWO) might play out, if added to something like beatpath or ranked pairs in a large-scale public election. (Briefly, CWO is that any non-winning candidate can order a post-election re-tally in which they are delete