How do your thoughts compare with Condorcet as a competitor? It:
Normally is defined as not doing runoffs.
Has no problem with voters offering whatever quantity of ranks they
choose, including doing bullet voting.
DWK
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:05:16 +0000 (GMT) Juho Laatu wrote:
FYI. Finland used to have three rounds in the presidential elections. Since
1994 a typical direct two round method has been used. Before that (in most
elections) the voters first elected 300 (or 301) electors who then voted in
three rounds (two candidates at the last round).
Reasons behind moving to the direct two round system included assumed general
popularity of a direct election, some problems with heavy trading and planning
of votes by the electors, possibility of black horses and other voting patterns
that are not based on the citizens' votes. Maybe three rounds / three election
days in a direct election would have been too expensive and too tiring.
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One somewhat related method:
I sometimes played with the idea that in IRV one would not totally eliminate the least
popular (first place) candidates but would use some softer means and would allow the
"eliminated" candidates to win later if they turn out to be the favourites of
many voters (after their first preference candidates have lost all chances to win).
One could e.g. force supporters of the "eliminated" candidates to approve more than one
candidate (at least one of the "remaining" candidates) (instead of just bullet voting their
second preference). On possible way to terminate the algorithm would be to stop when someone has
reached >50% approval level.
Also in "non-instant" runoffs one could e.g. force the voters to approve at least one on
the "remaining" candidates. (One could eliminate more than one candidate at different
rounds.)
Juho
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