Mr. Layton wrote- This idea just popped into my head, which means I haven't thought about it in much detail. I'm pretty sure someone has already come up with this. Anyway, voters have three different ways they can vote for candidates - dissaprove, approve and strongly approve. Then, conduct a pairwise count, where for a pairwise comparison on each ballot; If both A and B are strongly approved, they each get 1 point If A is ranked over B, A gets 1 point and B gets 0 points If both A and B are approved, they each get 1/2 point If both A and B are dissaproved, they get 0 points You then use Ranked Pairs (WINNING VOTES) to tabulate the winner / ranking. With this score structure, you're much more likely to get a Condorcet winner. ----- D- Apply it to a standard 3 choice circular tie- 34 ABC 33 BCA 32 CAB 99 How many combinations of points are possible ??? It would seem that only the *strongly approved* choices would survive (ending up with simple Approval). Is there *YES or NO* and *strongly* *YES or NO* in the plus 100 percent to minus 100 percent range of approval/ disapproval of any given choice ???
