I was just looking at the wiki page for DMC:
http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Definite_Majority_Choice
I saw this statement:
"DMC chooses the same winner as (and could be considered equivalent in most respects to) Ranked Approval Voting (RAV) (also known as Approval Ranked Concorcet), and Pairwise Sorted Approval (PSA)."
Do we know for sure that DMC always chooses the same winner as RAV and PSA? If so, then in what respects are they *not* equivalent?
If these methods are equivalent, then I think we need to eventually try to somehow agree on a common name for public promotion. We might also be wise to agree on the simplest explanation, with the more complicated explanations used as "backup" material for those who are intellectually curious.
The actual name and acronym may be critical to the public salability of the method, so we need to be very careful in selecting it. We shouldn't rush into it. "Definite Majority Choice" seems too generic and not descriptive enough to me, but I am not necessarily opposed to it. I like RAV (which I proposed myself), but I don't consider it an ideal name either. In any case, we must avoid at all cost using the word "dropping" in the name (it sounds too much like something birds do).
One of these days I should crank out a list of possible names/acronyms of this method for discussion and perhaps an eventual vote.
--Russ
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