[EM] Lotteries undefeated in median

2005-07-09 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear folks! Some time ago I reported here upon the Condorcet Lottery, a method which determines the winner by drawing from a special probability distribution (=lottery) among a special subset of the candidates (the so-called Bipartisan set). The special property of that method was that for every

[EM] lotteries

2005-02-22 Thread Forest Simmons
Here's an idea to stimulate thought: Ballots are Cardinal Ratings or Ordinal Rankings. Approval cutoffs are optional. Some default scheme is used for ballots that do not have indicated approval cutoffs. If there is a CW, the winner is chosen by random ballot among all of the candidates that