Re: [Election-Methods] Elect the Compromise (correction)

2007-08-31 Thread Juho
There are deterministic method related tracks that have not been discussed so far. It is possible to use the uncertainty involved in the polls. The votes need not be exactly 55% and 45% but there can be some uncertainty on which one of the two groups is bigger. The A supporters may vote

Re: [Election-Methods] Elect the Compromise (correction)

2007-08-29 Thread Forest W Simmons
Below where I said unlike Borda I should have said unlike D2MAC. Neither the Borda solution nor the reverse plurality solution requires anything other than the ordinal preferences. So the deterministic solutions that do not depend on some form of vote trading are insensitive to whether or not