Re: [EM] Your Vote Counts! (silly voting methods)

2004-01-24 Thread Eric Gorr
At 5:54 AM +0100 1/24/04, Kevin Venzke wrote: Eric, --- Eric Gorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : At 5:01 AM +0100 1/24/04, Kevin Venzke wrote: > >40 A>B>C >35 B>C>A >25 C>A>B > > >A wins. The 35 votes are not counted. Actually, the 35 votes matter a great deal in an RP election - assumin

Re: [EM] Your Vote Counts! (silly voting methods)

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Venzke
Eric, --- Eric Gorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > At 5:01 AM +0100 1/24/04, Kevin Venzke wrote: > >40 A>B>C > >35 B>C>A > >25 C>A>B > > > >A wins. The 35 votes are not counted. > > Actually, the 35 votes matter a great deal in an RP election - > assuming you are referring to '35 B>C>A' > >

Re: [EM] Your Vote Counts! (silly voting methods)

2004-01-23 Thread Eric Gorr
At 5:01 AM +0100 1/24/04, Kevin Venzke wrote: 40 A>B>C 35 B>C>A 25 C>A>B A wins. The 35 votes are not counted. Actually, the 35 votes matter a great deal in an RP election - assuming you are referring to '35 B>C>A' These 35 votes are a part of the pairwise defeat of B>C being the strongest (has

Re: [EM] Your Vote Counts! (silly voting methods)

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Venzke
I favor version P. --- Jan Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > The reason that the YVC methods are silly is that you can affect the > outcome of the election, but (if there are a significant number of > voters) you have no way of knowing how to vote or not-vote so as to > achieve your desired o

[EM] Your Vote Counts! (silly voting methods)

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Kok
The voting methods proposed below give very high probabilities to all voters that "Your vote counts!" - as compared with most other methods discussed on this list. This post is really a reductio ad absurdum argument showing that improving the chances that voters' votes "count" (change the outcome