[EM] Approval with 2 ballotings

2005-02-15 Thread Forest Simmons
Gervase proposed changing the quota to more than fifty percent based on the number of candidates. Could this give some party an incentive to field dummy candidates just to drive up the quota? Forest From: "MIKE OSSIPOFF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EM] Approval with 2 ballo

[EM] Approval with 2 ballotings

2005-02-11 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Gervase-- You wrote: In an e-mail sent to me 1 year ago today(!), Mike Ossipoff suggested doing a 2 round (or more strictly a 1.5 round) Approval election. I reply: I´d heard of that method in an article which was probably by Tideman & Fishburn. Maybe Tideman & Brams. You continued: In the 1st ro