Re: [EM] Re: SR

2005-09-20 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 01:07 AM 9/20/2005, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: Well, for such voters, Approval is ideal (if it were only more publicly acceptable). But maybe people insist on a rank method. As to the public acceptability of Approval, it may depend on how it is presented. While Approval could have major implicati

[EM] Re: SR

2005-09-19 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Forest-- You wrote: Here's the weakness of SR: 60 ABCDEF 40 BCDEFA Here A should be the winner, but B has by far the best SR score of only 60 versus A's lousy 200. I believe that this defect is called "teaming." I reply: Yes, SR shares that Borda problem, because SR is closely related to

[EM] RE: SR

2005-09-19 Thread Simmons, Forest
Here's the weakness of SR: 60 ABCDEF 40 BCDEFA Here A should be the winner, but B has by far the best SR score of only 60 versus A's lousy 200. I believe that this defect is called "teaming." Forest <> Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info