Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-09 Thread James Green-Armytage
This is James Green-Armytage responding to Ken Taylor >Resloving it with IRV >would elect C -- basically giving the "insincere" B voters what they ask >for >(in fact, B has no chance if IRV is used as the resolution method). See below for examples of strategic vulnerability in Condorcet-

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-03 Thread Stephane Rouillon
Ken Taylor a écrit : > And finally, as IRV is immune to this particular strategy (a claim made both > by you and by the author of the article I was responding to), using IRV as a > completion method would also be immune to this particular strategy. And so, > my argument against the contention that

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-03 Thread Ken Taylor
James Wrote, responding to me: > >I may have worded my response to the article too strongly. However, your > >example, reposted here: > >46: A>B > >44: B>C (instead of B>A) > >5: C>A > >5: C>B > > Please note that there is a second example at the end of that posting; > one which is stronger in that

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-03 Thread RLSuter
To James and Ernie, Thanks very much for your comments. I agree with Ernie that it's important to be civil. If my comments regarding the CVD draft seemed unnecessarily combative, that was not my intention, and I'll try to be more careful in the future. But please keep in mind that I was respond

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Ralph, I think its a fair critique, but I would encourage you to approach them in a more positive fashion. For example, I think they do raise a number of valid points, and this seems the first most of us have seen of IRV supporters actually trying to tackle the issues head on. I would enco

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread James Green-Armytage
to Ralph Suter, I liked this letter a lot. I especially liked the part where you took issue with Amy's treatment of Condorcet! I read that book too, and the part on Condorcet which you cited really bothered me. And the Lijphart quote, wow! I also agree that the 'punishing candidates who t

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread James Green-Armytage
This is James Green-Armytage responding to Ken Taylor >James wrote: >> However, there is no question that the strategic possibility is there, >> and so I think that your note is unfortunately quite wrong. If after >> reading my August posting you no longer hold to your earlier statement, >I >> wo

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread Ken Taylor
James wrote: > However, there is no question that the strategic possibility is there, > and so I think that your note is unfortunately quite wrong. If after > reading my August posting you no longer hold to your earlier statement, I > would suggest that you send another e-mail to CVD to concede th

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread RLSuter
I'm posting this to the Election Methods list and BCC'ing it to Rob Richie and Terry Bouricus of CVD. I hope they will take a look at the other commentaries about the CVD draft on the EM list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/) that are likely to be posted in the next few day

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread James Green-Armytage
Ken Taylor quoted from the CVD release: >Suppose four candidates (A, B, C, and D) are running for an office, where >candidates A and B are the frontrunners. >Consider a voter whose true preferences are in order of A, B, C, D. Under >Condorcet, by voting insincerely this voter can >minimize the cha

Re: [EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread Ken Taylor
> Just became aware of this: > > Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff/message/1548 > (The message archives are open to everyone) > > I haven't gone over it in detail (yet). > > I would expect it to show up at http://fairvote.org soon.

[EM] Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting

2004-04-02 Thread Eric Gorr
Just became aware of this: Draft of CVD analysis about IRV vs. Condorcet Voting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff/message/1548 (The message archives are open to everyone) I haven't gone over it in detail (yet). I would expect it to show up at http://fairvote.org soon. It would be great