Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:06:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Forest Simmons
Subject: [EM] Approval/Condorcet Compromise
Kevin's Approval Runoff in which low approval candidates are eliminated
until there is a Condorcet Winner, can also be described as follows:
Pick the lowest approval score candidate
Kevin's Approval Runoff in which low approval candidates are eliminated
until there is a Condorcet Winner, can also be described as follows:
Pick the lowest approval score candidate that beats all of the candidates
with greater approval scores.
Proof of equivalence:
Kevin's winner KW has to
Most of the proposed Approval/Condorcet Compromises assume that the CW is
more desirable than the Approval Winner when they are not the same
candidate, i.e. the Approval Winner is only to be considered when there is
no CW available.
That seems to me like a kind of one sided approach to
