Donald, --- Donald Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit�: > Years ago, on this list, I suggested that when Condorcet shows a circular > tie that the best thing to do was to eliminate one candidate. Most likely > this will break the cycle. Then you can resume using Condorcet if you > must.
You could do this with Raynaud or "Pairwise-Elimination," where you successively eliminate the candidate who suffers the worst defeat. It's certainly more intuitive to delete candidates than contests. It's not a monotonic method, but neither is IRV. I wonder whether most Condorcet advocates would accept a non-monotonic version (thinking Raynaud and Nanson/Baldwin) if that option were much easier to get adopted. > Condorcet will use all the lower choices. Irving will only use ten percent > of the lower choices. Using less is best. A multi choice election that > has a majority winner in the first choices is ideal because no lower > choices will be used. Think about that, if that is the ideal, then we > should stay as close as possible to the ideal as we can when picking an > election method. Donald, Condorcet methods will always elect a candidate who is the first choice of a majority! What is bad about heavy emphasis on first choices, is that it creates incentive to lie about who is really your favorite. Most of us here don't like order- reversal incentive. Kevin Venzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
