Juho Laatu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The method consists of two rounds. If the first round produces a >Condorcet winner, the second round is not needed. Otherwise the second >round will be held and also the tie breaking method is used if there is >a top cycle. (Clearly non-winning candidates could be excluded from the >second round but I won't discuss those rules further here.)
I brought this up in late May of 2004. As I recall, the idea didn't meet with much support. I agree that runoffs are expensive and ideally shouldn't be necessary, but there may be situations where the benefits outweigh the costs. Once I designed cardinal pairwise, which seems to have fairly strong anti-strategic properties with a single round, I stopped talking about the two round system. Still, perhaps the idea should be kept afloat to some degree, e.g. given a name and an electowiki page. I also proposed a procedure in December 2003 which is similar but with no fixed limit on the number of rounds... I consider this one to be excellent in a small group scenario, but impractical when the number of voters is very large. my best, James references: http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-December/011393.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-May/date.html http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/vm/antistratsum.htm ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
