--- Antonio Oneala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/24/2006 wrote: > David Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Besides its severely > > limited range of application, the other major > > drawback of the proposed method is that it is not proportional. > > I have no idea how the application of the method is "limited". You > have rather severly misinterpreted my suggestion.
Yes, I did severely misinterpret your suggestion. I withdraw what I said about it. > It IS cloneproof. However, a made slight error in my original > proposal. Whenever a candidate fulfills the droop quota he should > automatically be declared one of the winners of one of the rounds, > and then the value of the votes should be reduced (as it would > whenever you declare a winner in STV), and the new values of the > persons vote should be transferred to the next person they had on > their list. Whenever this is through you can declare the next > winner, and you repeat this until you have all the winners. The > reason for this is rather obvious. Under the original erronous > proposal it would have ended up with a situation simialar to SNTV > in which surplus votes are wasted. I think I'm getting a better understanding, but I'm still not sure I completely understand what is being proposed. I think you are saying: 1. For an N-seat election, use the voted ranked ballots to conduct an STV-style, N-seat election between every possible combination of N+1 candidates and record the loser of each such contest. 2. If there are exactly N candidates that are unambiguously without any losses in the N-out-of-N+1 contests, those N candidates are the winners, corresponding to being the standard Condorcet winner of a single-winner election. 3. Otherwise (if there are fewer or more than N candidates without any losses, or ties and/or tie-breaking makes the number of candidates without any losses ambiguous), then the result corresponds to a Condorcet ambiguity in a single-winner election, and some additional ambiguity resolution is needed to determine the N winners. Does that restatement reflect what you had in mind? -- David Cary __________________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta) ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
