On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:04:04 -0700 Simmons, Forest wrote:
> Steve Eppley suggested allowing voters to choose from published orderings and
> then doing the tally by
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> "... a good voting method, such as Maximize Affirmed Majorities (MAM)."
>
> Here's a suggestion for an easy-to-understand alternative to MAM that would
> be adequate in this context:
I am looking at this without looking at MAM.
>
> In the case that the most popular ordering is complete, start at the bottom
> of that ordering and use the "Winner Stays" rule. In other words, of the
> bottom two alternatives on the most popular list, the one that is ranked
> ahead of the other on more ballots than not is kept, and the other is
> eliminated. This elimination rule is repeatedly applied among the remaining
> alternatives until only one candidate (the method winner) remains.
Looking much like Condorcet. From there we know that cycles can occur,
needing more thought here.
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> If the most popular order is not complete, then refine it using the order
> that is second in popularity, then third in popularity, etc.
>
> Note that Eppley's suggestion (in its simplest forms) requires only a
> standard plurality style ballot, and each voter marks only one alternative (a
> candidate's name or a code word for somebody else's published ordering).
Starts out looking good but, how many lists might there be with half a
dozen candidates?
What would this quantity do to the voting machine?
How much might this confuse the voter looking for an acceptable list?
>
> This is exactly the kind of simplicity that we need to get a viable
> improvement over plurality for public elections.
Sounds like as much trouble as Condorcet and in counting complexity,
though doable with present voting machines - provided they can tolerable
the number of choices.
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> Forest
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