James,
Regarding the Alternative Vote (aka IRV) you wrote:
It is used for elections to the lower houses of Australia and Ireland, for
mayoral
elections in England, and for local elections in about twelve American cities.
In Ireland it is used to elect the President. The Irish lower house uses
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
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Kathy Dopp wrote:
given:
R = the number of possible rankings or IRV rounds
N = the number of candidates in each election contest
the total number of permutations and the number of vote counts which
must be
Kathy Dopp wrote:
Well, any election method can be parallelized (in quote marks) with a
superpolynomial amount of information when there are as many choices as
candidates.
I am not certain what you mean. Precisely, any Ranked Choice ballot
has a number of possible permutations of all the
Warren Smith wrote:
1. USUALLY it is EASY to find a BETTER-than-honesty
strategy in IRV. This is not just me ranting.
It is in fact a published theorem.
Please post a citation of this published source others can find it.
Thanks in advance.
--Bob Richard
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