>From my point of view, the ability to deny someone else representation is not a good thing. But it has no impact on single seat elections where with only one winner, some voters are going to be without representation at the end of the process. I suppose that is why Mike says my views fit for multiple-winners elections. And I tend to see single winner methods as a particular case of multiple-winners elections... Maybe I should not.
Markus Schulze a �crit : > Dear Steph, > > you wrote (8 Dec 2002): > > I suppose Mike means that if someone voted ABDEFH, > > is vote can be cancelled by someone else voting CG > > thus the combined effect of those two votes has no > > effect on the outcome of the vote (except in the case > > of a tie and a mathematically systematical tie-breaker). > > I suppose that Mike means something like Donald G. Saari's > "Reversal Symmetry Criterion" which says that adding a > vote and its reversal shouldn't change the outcome. > However, this criterion is a rather strong criterion > (especially when one promotes "winning votes"). > > Markus Schulze ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
