Re: [EM] R. B. MacSmith

2005-03-02 Thread Forest Simmons
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jobst Heitzig wrote: Dear Forest! When I understand you right, you propose to just strike out all strongly covered candidates and then use Random Ballot on the rest, right? But then there must be some error in your proof of monotonicity, I fear -- look at the following exampl

Re:[EM] R. B. MacSmith

2005-03-01 Thread Forest Simmons
I would like to mention some other properties of the variation on MacSmith that I suggested below. For reference first I give a brief description of the method: "Random Ballot, Non Strongly Covered" Ballots are ordinal or cardinal with approval cutoffs or some other way of indicating approval.

Re:[EM] R. B. MacSmith

2005-03-01 Thread Forest Simmons
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:37:05 +0100 From: Jobst Heitzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EM] R.B.MacSmith Anti-strategic properties: I did not yet test many anti-strategy criteria, but the main anti-strategic feature is that, due to the above-mentioned randomization, in every majority which think