Hi all,
On Feb 20, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
By the way, another academic author surprised me by advocating
Condorcet's method in an article in the Op-Ed section of the
Washington Post, for June 21, 1992. The title of the article, which,
it seems to me, was at the top of the pa
On Feb 20, 2004, at 12:38 AM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
I hope .. that article is in the print issue of Sci Am too.
Yes, it is. I agree with you - the overall tone was very positive and
useful, and will encourage to people consider Condorcet-compliant
(Majority Rule) methods.
Why did the Sci Am aut
When I commented yesterday about the Sci. Am. article, it was incorrect to
say that circular ties were only introduced in the paragraph that defined
Copeland. They'd mentioned circular ties earlier, but it was in that
paragraph that they brought up the matter of solving them.
They didn't call C
Forest Simmons wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Steve Eppley wrote:
> > Forest Simmons wrote:
> > -snip-
> > > They also express the belief that the completion method
> > > doesn't matter too much because according to a theorem
> > > of Black, Condorcet cycles should be rare in political
> > > electio
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Joseph Malkevitch wrote:
> Dear Steve,
>
> I do not want to speak for what Forest may or may not have meant but in his
> work on elections Duncan Black endorsed a method, sometimes called Black's
> method, which operates in the environment where voters produce ballots where
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Steve Eppley wrote:
> Forest Simmons wrote:
>
> -snip-
>
> > They also express the believe that the completion method
> > doesn't matter too much because according to a theorem
> > of Black, Condorcet cycles should be rare in political
> > elections.
>
> If that's Black's "me
Dear Steve,
I do not want to speak for what Forest may or may not have meant but in his
work on elections Duncan Black endorsed a method, sometimes called Black's
method, which operates in the environment where voters produce ballots where
all condidates must be ranked on an ordinal ballot and one
Well, I read their article last night. They have some condition called
"neutrality" which requires two things:
1) That a method not favor any candidate over another in its rules.
(Pretty innocuous)
2) (here I'll quote them precisely) "The second requires that the
voters' choice between candid
Forest Simmons wrote:
-snip-
> The authors eloquently promote the CW as the true majority
> winner, and explain their theorem that methods that do
> not choose the CW are further from satisfying the IIAC
> than methods that do.
>
> They also express the believe that the completion method
> do
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Markus Schulze wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> according to Partha Dasgupta's home page, his paper
> "The Fairest Vote of All" is identical to this paper:
> http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/dasgupta/MajRuVot.pdf
Actually, the Scientific American article is a beefed up version of the
one
At 4:48 AM +0100 2/14/04, Kevin Venzke wrote:
--- Rob LeGrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
The latest issue (March 2004) of Scientific American has a well-written
article on page 92 called "The Fairest Vote of All". It discusses
plurality, IRV, Borda ("rank-order voting") and Condorcet ("true
Hallo,
according to Partha Dasgupta's home page, his paper
"The Fairest Vote of All" is identical to this paper:
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/dasgupta/MajRuVot.pdf
Markus Schulze
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--- Rob LeGrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> The latest issue (March 2004) of Scientific American has a well-written
> article on page 92 called "The Fairest Vote of All". It discusses
> plurality, IRV, Borda ("rank-order voting") and Condorcet ("true majority
> rule"); the specific system th
On Feb 13, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Rob LeGrand wrote:
The latest issue (March 2004) of Scientific American has a well-written
article on page 92 called "The Fairest Vote of All". It discusses
plurality, IRV, Borda ("rank-order voting") and Condorcet ("true
majority
rule"); the specific system they rec
The latest issue (March 2004) of Scientific American has a well-written
article on page 92 called "The Fairest Vote of All". It discusses
plurality, IRV, Borda ("rank-order voting") and Condorcet ("true majority
rule"); the specific system they recommend in the end is Copeland//Borda.
Check it ou
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