Abd ul-Rahman Lomax writes:
At 11:29 AM 11/6/2006, Michael Poole wrote:
By the majority criterion, a candidate X should win if a majority of
voters answers affirmatively to the question 'Do you prefer X to
every other candidate?'.
A voter who cannot honestly or easily answer yes to
I may have posted this a while ago, but not sure.
On the EC, what about this rule:
The most popular party shall be assigned a "win margin" which shall be
equal to its total vote cast for the party less the total vote of the
next largest rival.
Before the count, the party that was assigned a
The legislature would be made up of
- Sitting Legislators elected by some PR system
- legislators who still have votes in their pool, but failed to get re-elected
Both sets are allowed into the legislature and may vote (speaking rights
may be different).
At the start of each month and before
Both CRV and Wikipedia claim that range voting meets the Independence
of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) criterion, but neither gives much
justification for such claims.
Electorama succinctly but informally describes IIA as:
if one option (X) wins the election, and a new alternative (Y)
is
At 01:30 AM 11/7/2006, Chris Benham wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
90: A9B1(sincere is A9B1)
10: B99A0 (sincere is B5A3)
All the voters have a sincere low opinion of both candidates, but
90% think that A is 900%
better than B and yet B wins (with only 10% of the voters not being
At 08:35 AM 11/7/2006, Michael Poole wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax writes:
No voting method can use preferences that are not expressed.
Linguistically, the Criterion contains a lost performative -- or
something like that. *How* do the voters answer affirmatively. It
could only mean that
Cary:
Both CRV and Wikipedia claim that range voting meets the Independence
of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) criterion, but neither gives much
justification for such claims.
Benham:
Range votign supporters like to move the goalposts around.
Actually:
http://www.rangevoting.org/ArrowThm.html
Theorem saying IRV ignores asymptotically 100% of
the votes
always:
puzzle 34 at http://rangevoting.org/PuzzlePage.html
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