Yeah I figured it out shortly after I sent the email. The average bothers me. Do blanks count as 0? If so (and it makes sense to me) then there is no need to average - the sum is just as meaningful as the average. It might even be more intellectually satisfying to normalize to the number of total voters.
Matt - On Wednesday 12 July 2006 00:33, David Cary wrote: > --- Matthew Welland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you just add up the votes for each candidate? I dug around > > www.rangevoting.org and it wasn't obvious to me. The arguments for > > range > > voting seem strong. Are there any well written dissenting articles? > > A google > > search yielded nothing. > > It is tucked away where nobody would ever look -- at the top of the > home page: candidates are evaluated on the basis of their average > score (of the non-X'ed ballots), and on reaching a threshhold for the > percentage of ballots that are not X'ed. > > I thought the critique of Condorcet voting was somewhat of a strawman > argument, since it was dependent on voting with complete, strict > preferences or on poor implementation of basic strategy. > > Range voting doesn't satisfy the Condorcet criterion. But regarding > Condorcet winners, the real question is under which conditions will > Range voting elect the Condorcet candidate? > > -- David Cary > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ---- > election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info > > > -- http://www.kiatoa.com, a self-governing site where *you* can be the boss! You make and choose the stories and the classifieds are always free. Also, many "best of" polls. Come join in the ballot stuffing! ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
