[EM] Dealing with ties and truncated ballots

While I was working on my "Crosscut" method of voting, I realized early on that I needed a way of dealing with truncated ballots. If I simply ranked all truncated candidates in last place, I would be encouraging people to truncate everyone but their top choice, which kind of d

Re: Truncated ballots

Mr. Saari wrote: In general, simple ranking does not convey enough information to make clear conclusions - but it does provide just enough data for people to argue endlessly without possibility of success. I concur. Electing candidates is related to enacting laws. A law is acceptable or not

Re: Truncated ballots

Dear Mike, you wrote (9 Apr 1998): > Sorry, there is not enough information available to make this conclusion. It > is possible that the first three groups find ALL of the candidates > "acceptable", whereas the last group finds C "acceptable" but is violently > opposed to B and A. If this were

Re: Truncated ballots

In a message dated 98-04-06 15:13:13 EDT, you write: <> Sorry, there is not enough information available to make this conclusi

Re: Truncated ballots

Regarding Mr. Eppley's posting of Mon, Apr 6, 1998 3:29 PM EDT--- I mention some more from the 1996-1997 discussion- The range of approval on a choice is from plus 100 percent (total approval) to minus 100 percent (total opposition). Some voters (perhaps even a majority of the voters) just migh

RE: Truncated ballots

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, IH Farrow wrote: > Steve Eppley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > >We might look to Australia, which provides a truncating > >shortcut used by most voters in Australia's STV proportional > >representation elections. The shortcut allows the voter > >to select one party i

Re: Truncated ballots

The single winner case was dealt with extensively in 1996-1997 on the EM list. My observations were: Each choice (assuming a limited number of choices) is acceptable or not acceptable to a majority of the voters. That is, there should be a YES/ NO vote on each choice. If 2 or more choices get

Re: Truncated ballots

Clarification: I am interested in elections as a form of multi-party decision making. I am mainly concerned with cases where only one option is chosen, e.g. there is a single seat, or 'what restaurant do we go to tonight' (by a crowd). P.S. Apparently the action is now at the Electoral Reform

Truncated ballots

There are currently two main options for ranking ballots. 1) give first choice (FPP) 2) rank all choices. I am considering the case where voters are asked to rank, say, their top 4 out of 10. Does anyone know of an references to practical experience with such truncated rankings? The idea is t