This is my 2nd attempt to send this letter. The 1st time, I accidentally pressed some key in the bottom row of the keyboard, and the letter disappeared from the screen.
To the extent that "Ranked-Pairs" is a descriptive name for the method that we call by that name, "Ranked-Pairs" is also a descriptive name for all the Condorcet versions. All the Condorcet versions solve circular ties based on the order of strengths of the pairwise defeats. When proposing RP to the public, then, might it not be better to use a genuinely descriptive name? I don't have a good suggestion for a new name--I just have suggestions like: "Keep-Unnullified-Defeats" (KUD). Steve Eppley wrote a descriptive name for RP. MTM stood for "Minimize Thwarted Majorities", a name based on the goal-based definition of RP. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
