[EM] Bucklin PR ?

2005-11-21 Thread Chris Benham
Kevin, I see from your response to the Electowiki Method support poll that you nearly support the ER-Bucklin(whole) single-winner method, and that for Legislative election methods you like possibly a proportional approval scheme. What do you think of this PR version of

RE: [EM] Bucklin

2005-09-22 Thread Kevin Venzke
Mike, --- MIKE OSSIPOFF [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : In ERBucklin(whole), if you raise Favorite from 2nd place up to 1st place where Compromise is, doesn't that mean that your vote filters down to your old 3rd place candidate sooner? Maybe soon enough to let him get a majority before

[EM] Bucklin

2005-09-21 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Sure, I'd have to agree that ERBucklin(whole), matching SR in its FBC compliance, is better than SR, which, so far as I know, offers nothing but FBC. But MDDA is better than Bucklin. Bucklin has the advantage of a easier handcount than the pairwise-count methods, for organizations or

[EM] Bucklin, the Supreme Court, LNH

2004-04-10 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Markus quoted the Minnesota Supreme Court: the Minnesota Supreme Court wrote: The preferential system [Bucklin] directly diminishes the right of an elector to give an effective vote for the candidate of his choice. I reply: That's odd, because if the voter votes only for his favorite, then he's

[EM] Bucklin not clone-independent

2004-04-08 Thread Rob LeGrand
Mike Ossipoff wrote: By the way, if anyone knows of an example in which Buckling fails Independence from Clones, would they post it? 20:ABC 17:BCA 13:CAB B wins under (usual) Bucklin. 20:DABC 17:BCAD 13:CADB Now A wins, so adding a clone of A (D, which doesn't win) caused B to lose. =

Re: [EM] Bucklin

2004-04-07 Thread Forest Simmons
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Rob LeGrand wrote: Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should win the following Bucklin election? 25:BrownJonesDavisSmith 26:DavisSmithBrownJones

Re: [EM] Bucklin

2004-04-07 Thread Forest Simmons
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Forest Simmons wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Rob LeGrand wrote: Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should win the following Bucklin election?

[EM] Bucklin

2004-04-06 Thread Rob LeGrand
Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should win the following Bucklin election? 25:BrownJonesDavisSmith 26:DavisSmithBrownJones 49:JonesSmithBrownDavis Smith? Jones? = Rob

Re: [EM] Bucklin

2004-04-06 Thread Alex Small
Rob LeGrand said: Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should win the following Bucklin election? 25:BrownJonesDavisSmith 26:DavisSmithBrownJones 49:JonesSmithBrownDavis Well, since

Re: [EM] Bucklin, QLTD

2004-04-06 Thread Kevin Venzke
Rob, --- Rob LeGrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should win the following Bucklin election? 25:BrownJonesDavisSmith 26:DavisSmithBrownJones