Re: [EM] Relevance of Consistency

2002-11-04 Thread Blake Cretney
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:28, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: > Consistency, like a number of other criteria, is relevant to how > well a voting system reflects the electorate's wishes. Say a candidate > wins in each district. If he wins in each district, there's a > meaningful sense in which he can be called

Re: [EM] Condorcet Violates Strong FBC

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Small
Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon said: > Alex, > does any method satisfy strong FBC? Good question. I know that Condorcet methods don't, and monotonic majoritarian methods don't. Rated methods don't. If I could show that majoritarian methods don't, irrespective of montonicity, I'd be satisfied

Re: [EM] Condorcet Violates Strong FBC

2002-11-04 Thread Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon
Alex, does any method satisfy strong FBC? Stephane. PS: Bart, you are right, yes consistency is relevant. Sorry James, I missed the fact that the globally elected candidate was not elected in any subset... Now how important is consistency in comparison to other criterias? I do not know. I only kn

[EM] Condorcet Violates Strong FBC

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Small
Suppose we have an election method M that elects the CW when one exists and uses some unspecified auxillary procedure when no CW exists. I will argue that this method cannot satisfy the requirement that no voter ever has an incentive to rank another candidate above or equal to his favorite. By as