On 2007 July 17 Tuesday 20.21, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: >It's a little-noticed fact that, in Warren Smith's IEVS simulations, >which generate sets of voters with simulated utilities, then apply >various voting methods and strategies, (see rangevoting.org), Range >Voting, when voters "strategize," is actually beaten by Range with a >top-two runoff.
It's little-noticed, indeed. Thank you for the information. I talked to a friend who happens to be a member of Mensa Hungary and now he wants to write an article about voting methods for the local Mensa periodical! He has two questions: >From your words I guess you propose a real runoff in a later time, when the results of the first round are already known. Is this real and principal decision, or only practical? Would it be possible either in Range or in Approval to gain this pairwise comparison information from the already cast votes? Maybe by Condorcet-style votes or something? (People don't like to vote twice.) The second question: As far as we understand, Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn can be considered as foundig fathers of proposing Approval vote in modern days (Wikipedia - Voting system says it was in use in Venice in the 13th century!). Who can be honoured as proposer of Approval+2 and Range+2? Do they have the same origin? Peter Barath P.S.: For your interest: Mensa Hungary uses plurality to elect its leaders. Mensa International uses instant runoff for the same aim. ____________________________________________________________________ Tavaszig, most minden féláron! ADSL Internet már 1 745 Ft/hó -tól. Keresse ajánlatunkat a http://www.freestart.hu oldalon! ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
