Mike, My remarks were about MinMax (Pairwise Opposition), which elects the candidate who minimizes the maximum votes against him in any pairwise contest (be it victory or defeat).
Admittedly I don't know much about offensive strategy for this method. Burial seems potentially effective. But truncation doesn't appear to be a useful strategy of any kind in "MMPO." Kevin Venzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- MIKE OSSIPOFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit�: > > Kevin Venzke wrote: > > I can see this now, too. Worsening someone's score could happen > to make a preferred candidate into the winner. That is surely why > random filling always makes more sense than truncation. > > I reply: > > Not always. If there's a danger or likelihooid of offensive order-reversal, > and you want to deter it, then leave out of your ranking the candidate(s) > whose voters are considering offensive order-reversal. Announce before the > election that you are doing so and that you ask others to do so. > > Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ 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
