Re: [EM] Does cycle-collapsing spoil MMPO's FBC compliance?

2005-06-05 Thread Anthony Duff
Hi Mike, Your statements about insincere voting in Australia don't ring true with me, and I know a lot of Australians. Would you please share your information concerning Australians voting insincerely. I would have characterised Australian voters as taking seriously the opportunity to express th

[EM] Does cycle-collapsing spoil MMPO's FBC compliance?

2005-06-05 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
MMPO's FBC compliance somes from its stark simplicity and the fact that it ignores who beats whom. But cycles are about who beats whom. Maybe FBC compliance is as easy to lose as it is difficult to gain. For me, those things suggest that it isn't obvious that cycle-collapsing doesn't spoil M

[EM] The special tie rule works with MinMax(wv) and (margins)

2005-06-05 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi, MMPO has a couple of grave problems: It's indecisive and it fails the Plurality criterion. It occurred to me only a couple of days ago that one could use the "T matrix" with MinMax(wv) to avoid these problems and still satisfy FBC. MinMax(wv) can be defined like this: A candidate's score in a

[EM] Re: Election-methods Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10

2005-06-05 Thread Andrew Myers
> From: Gervase Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [EM] MAM algorithm? > To: election-methods-electorama.com@electorama.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > While finding a way to group candidates together in order to find a > multi-winner pairwise method, I came up with a technique/algorith