I previously wrote a long math paper The Best Rank-Order Voting System versus Range Voting http://rangevoting.org/BestVrange.html
and I am now making it be a two-part sequence of papers. The 2nd part is now done: Best voting systems in D-dimensional politics models http://rangevoting.org/BestVot2.html Actually neither part is *really* done and comments will be appreciated. (I still have not processed many of the comments I received on part I, though...) The main things that bother me about part I (besides it being horrendously long) are my failure to really produce a lot of the closed formulas I proved could be got, and the fact I only did most of it for 3 candidates. Perhaps I can extend it to do 4 candidates also and to produce the missing closed formulas. Both look feasible. Part II is thankfully a lot shorter. Part I although long is concisely summarized in a table and plot. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) and math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
