In a particular ranking, if a candidate has N candidate ranked over him/her,
then s/he receives a vote from that ranking in the (N+1)th round.
I haven't been following this line of threads terribly closely, so I just want to be clear that I understand. The way I think about Bucklin is an approval election where the approval cutoff bar on everyone's ballot keeps getting lowered until we have a majority approved winner. It seems like there are three choices for the "speed" of the lowering of the cutoff in ERBucklin(whole):
1) Move down one slot on the ballot each round of the election, skipping empty slots
2) Move down one slot on the ballot each round of the election, NOT skipping empty slots
3) Move down one candidate each round of the election (cutoff is just below that candidate, whatever rank they are at)
I have no emotional attachment to any of these (although the second one is especially easy to explain, I think). I have no trouble believing the third is the best. I'd just like a quick explanation as to what the third approach offers that the others do not.
At such time as one or more candidates have a vote-total greater than the
number of voters,
Is this not supposed to be number of voters/2, plus 1? If not, why? It seems like a first-place majority candidate should win.
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