Election Methods Lists online archives are these two websites: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/messages _____ At 2002\08\16 15:56 -0700 Friday, Forest Simmons wrote: ... >The simplest of these, PAV and Sequential PAV, are based on Approval style >ballots. > >More complicated are pairwise PR methods (based on the D'Hondt rule, for >example) that reduce to Condorcet methods in the single winner case. > I ask Mr Simmons to e-mail into that mailing list the definition of a "Condorcet method", subject to the constraint that the definition take account only of the polytopes (or shapes) that are the definition. Anything unique that you have. You have not ruled that any method that is _not_ what you would call a Condorcet method can nevertheless be constructed from some ingenious use of pairwise comparing. What is a a "Condorcet method" ?. It is a question that others would not want to answer. Corrections: (1) I retract this sentence since it does not make sense: >... The rules >have to be perfectly designed or there is no method that both tests \-- defined --/ ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
