Hi everyone, After making repeated attempts to contact Yahoo, with no response, I'm shutting down the Yahoo Groups access to the election-methods-list. A...
I forgot to mention: There were 9 ballots posted, in February & March of this year, for the EM presidential poll. If that doesn't sound like much, it's a lot...
In the EM presidential poll that we voted on in February and March of this year, Nader won the Approval count. Nader was the only candidate to receive Approval...
The "majority winner" that IRVers so often boast of will often have another candidtate preferred to hir by a majority. Avoidably choosing someone in violation...
I would like to submit to the consideration of the EM list a paper that I've written recently in connection with election methods. I have made it available in ...
Hi, I've been reading the list for a couple weeks. I got into voting theory a couple years ago after reading a Science News article. It described IRV and I...
Here's some ideas for methods using the limit distribution of some Markov chain to find the winner. The idea is to move through the set of options, making...
In Laslier's nice book on tournament solutions I found a characterization of the Banks set and of Schwartz' "tournament equilibrium set" by a "contestation...
Hi, it's James. I haven't been keeping up with the list much lately, but I just wanted to respond to some of the recent discussion regarding a proxy direct...
Kurt-- You wrote: The problem with a pure proxy setup, however, is that there is a disincentive for anyone to adopt the duties of a super-proxy. Time, and...
The automatic equal ranking line option (AERLO) of course only gives its protection to the above-line candidates. And so if NES &/or DSV, in one of their...
Has anyone counted the presidential poll that we voted on in February & March of this year? Several people strongly protested that I'd incorrectly added an "e"...
... Well said! One of the attributes with IRV by supporters is that it shows depth of support. What it does *not* show is depth of enmity. Given three...
Alex-- You wrote: Probably the most significant difference between my definition and yours is that you focus on the incentives facing a single voter given all...
In my previous posting, I meant Mn(Mn-1(Mn-2(...(M1(M0)))...) _________________________________________________________________ Stop worrying about overloading...
I'd like to name the properties that I asked for in a posting the other day: Strong SFC is SFC with the clause "If no one falsifies a preference..." removed. ...
I have nothing against the grand jury approach to representation. It has some important advantages, which include: 1. No campaign contributions, which means: ...
Bart, ... CB: Oops! You are right, I didn't count the 49 B>C>A ballots as non-last votes for C. In this example, Plurality Criterion only says "not A". I...
I'd said: Fairly recently messages have been posted here about IRV proposals for ... Mr. Clark replied: I assume you're referring to the proposal discussed on...
Just spotted this comment on the wikipedia and wanted see what others might say about this... Talk:Spoiler effect http://tinyurl.com/2wj3l IRV isn't free from...
Alex-- You wrote: ERBucklin probably does pass weak FBC (the version that allows ranking somebody equal to your favorite) I reply: Yes, at least when FBC is...
Forest-- You wrote: But then he [Mike] goes on to say that Direct Democracy (DD) is on the verge of making PR obsolete. I reply: No, I said, or at least meant,...
Stepwise AERLO (SA) option: If any voters choose this option, then repeated AERLO trials are done. Each AERLO trial consists of two counts, an initial count...
In a recent message Mike Ossipoff made the (uncontroversial) assertion that we will always need single winner methods, even if Proportional Representation...
I've said that ERBucklin(whole) passes Strong FBC, while Alex said that only Reverse Plurality passes it. Aside from the fact that I didn't prove my ...
Jeff O'Neil said: To be specific, Merrill's simulations show that IRV is much better than PR. Merrill is fairly supportive of IRV in his book. I reply: As has...
Someone wrote: I'm wondering what the verdict is on using Borda as the tie breaker for deciding within the Schwartz Set. Some of the strongest Condorcet ...
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