Ted, --- Araucaria Araucana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interested in other parts of the message though -- you stated > there that you had a special technique for avoiding having to fill in > 25 votes in the > > A>>BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ > > case, but I didn't see how your 2004-11-04 message explained that. > Maybe I'm just dense or preoccupied.
It's in there, but it's surrounded by discussion. Here is the meat of it: http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-November/014115.html >For a given ballot, mark a vote at X,X for every candidate X >placed in the first or second slot. Mark a vote at X,Y for >every candidate X placed in the first slot above a candidate >Y placed in the middle slot. > >A beats B pairwise if A,A - B,A > B,B - A,B. So using this method, you don't have to mark a vote for A,B through A,Z. The only vote you mark is at A,A. > My interpretation of why Jobst 'changed his mind' was that Forest's > reinterpretation of RAV was much more persuasive than any other > previous explanation, including your one-line summary. Well, keep in mind that the purpose of my message was not to advocate using approval as a measure of defeat strength, but to suggest an easy way to hand-count three-slot Condorcet. It just happens that my "technique" isn't compatible with WV or Margins. Kevin Venzke __________________________________________________________________ D�couvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Cr�ez votre Yahoo! Mail sur http://fr.mail.yahoo.com/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
