Re: [EM] FW: Recent History Perspective on Condorcet Methods

2005-08-31 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear Ken! You wrote: But why should approval be included on the ballot in the first place? Doesn't it just create another opportunity for strategy? What's the gain? (Other than paving the way for DMC) The gain is that voters can thus express which there most important preferences are.

Re: [EM] FW: Recent History Perspective on Condorcet Methods

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Tarr
On 8/30/05, Ken Kuhlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where I can find examples of these performancedifferences? Specifically re: beatpath vs ranked pairs.I haven't been able to find anything on the wiki. Steve Eppeley has a version of Ranked Pairs called maximize affirmed majorities, and

Re: [EM] FW: Recent History Perspective on Condorcet Methods

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Venzke
Ken, --- Ken Kuhlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Why has Woodall's symmetric completion not garnered more attention as a method for handling truncated ballots? Is there an argument against it? I'd rather say that there's no argument *for* it. As a criterion, it's mathematically interesting,

[EM] FW: Recent History Perspective on Condorcet Methods

2005-08-30 Thread Simmons, Forest
Title: Re: [Condorcet] Comment on DMC Here's something I posted today on the Condorcet list. Forest From: Simmons, Forest Sent: Tue 8/30/2005 1:36 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Recent History Perspective on Condorcet Methods As most of you know, the Election Methods group has

Re: [EM] FW: Recent History Perspective on Condorcet Methods

2005-08-30 Thread Ken Kuhlman
Forest.. good stuff! Thanks for the post. A few questions: On 8/30/05, Simmons, Forest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main serious Condorcet proposals over the past ten years have been Beatpath, Ranked Pairs, and MinMax which I have listed in increasing order of simplicity and decreasing order