Hi Chris, --- Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Kevin (and interested others), > I'm interested in reaction to this suggestion for a method: > Voters fill out ratings ballots with 4 or more fixed slots (or maybe > with the number of slots being the number of candidates plus 1 or 2). > (1) If the candidate T that is top-rated on the most ballots has a > top-ratings > (TR) score higher than T's maximum pairwise oppostion (PO) score, > then elect T. > (2) If not, promote on all ballots any candidates in the next-lowest > rating > slot to Top and recalculate TR and PO scores accordingly. > (3) Repeat steps (1) and (2) until there is a winner. End.
With this method, step 2 affects all TR and PO scores unpredictably. It seems quite possible that with this vote: A=B > ... > C A is the "TRW" but cannot win due to his PO score, causing promotions that result in candidate C winning. Whereas this vote: B > ... > A=C could instead result in B being the TRW who is able to win given his PO score. ER-Bucklin(whole) avoids this situation by, at each stage, judging the TRW by a standard that if he doesn't satisfy, no one with fewer TRs can satisfy either. Kevin Venzke __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? En finir avec le spam? Yahoo! Mail vous offre la meilleure protection possible contre les messages non sollicités http://mail.yahoo.fr Yahoo! Mail ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
