> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:06:44 -0800 (PST) > From: Forest Simmons > Subject: [EM] Approval/Condorcet Compromise
> Kevin's Approval Runoff in which low approval candidates are eliminated > until there is a Condorcet Winner, can also be described as follows: > > Pick the lowest approval score candidate that beats all of the > candidates with greater approval scores. I assume this is equivalent to Reynaud(Approval)? I sort of followed this thread for quite a while. While following the thread, I began to notice that the Approval cut-off always stays in the same place. After each candidate is eliminated, wouldn't it make more sense to move the Approval cut-off up (or down) by one candidate on a ballot if the candidate that was eliminated was below (or above) the cut-off on the ballot. This is why I prefer something like: > One could dispense with approval if ballots are to be strictly ordinal > rankings: > > List the candidates in order of average rank, from lowest to highest. > > Go up the list until you first come to a candidate that is not beaten > pairwise by any candidate further up the list. I also thought that may be MinMax(pairwise opposition) could be used instead of Approval. But then this is equivalent to Reynaud(pairwise opposition). Thanks, Gervase. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
