Kevin Venzke <stepjak <at> yahoo.fr> writes: > I'd just use the beatpath ordering (that is, candidate A has a > stronger beatpath to every other candidate than vice versa and so > wins; candidate B has a stronger beatpath to everyone but A, etc.). > > But you seem to not want this because it doesn't consider any > specific contests.
I don't want to use beatpath unless there is a way to derive scores from it....not just ordering. > Additional ballots aren't a bad idea. Say that the beatpath(wv) > winner has a score of 0. Everyone else's score is the number of > bullet votes they'd neat to become the Condorcet winner. (You > could also say "to become the beatpath winner," but that would be > harder to calculate.) That gives a good idea of how close everyone > was, and still picks a good winner. I think you have described Minmax (margins) as the way of assigning scores. I don't particularly like the inconsistancy of using beatpath to determine the winner (and arbitrarily giving the winner a score of 0), then using minmax to determine the score. Still, interesting.... -rob ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
