Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I'm falling asleep, I'll answer the rest tomorrow...
>
> Pretty good post for a sleepy poster!
Thanks...
> Here's a weaker version that might be called the Humble Consistency
> Criterion, because it requires methods that don't satisfy the regular CC
> to admit indecisiveness before they qualify for the HCC.
>
> Humble CC:
>
> If candidate A wins DECISIVELY in all the subsets in some partition of the
> electorate (by restricting the election to the ballots from each of the
> subsets of the partition in turn) then candidate A wins the entire
> election.
By defining "DECISIVELY" for Condorcet Methods as "has a Condorcet
Winner", then Condorcet Methods pass HCC.
>
> IRV fails even this humble version of the CC.
How do you define "Decisively" for IRV?
> See my Greek Tragedy example in the archives at ...
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06168.html
>
> Forest
