I was wondering if someone on the Election Methods list could give me the name (or better yet, a link to more information) on a particular variation of the Bucklin method.
In Bucklin, you check first place votes to see if a candidate has a majority. If not, you add second place votes, then third place votes and so on, until at least one candidate has a majority. In the variation I'm thinking of, you look at first place votes. If one candidate has a majority, then he or she is the winner; otherwise, you start adding second place votes *one at a time* (rather than all at once), until you have majority candidate. If no candidate has a majority, you start adding third place votes one at a time, and so on. In other words, you find the candidate who needs the fewest added votes at a particular rank to be a majority winner. If candidate A needs only 2 second-place votes to have a majority and candidate B needs 100, it wouldn't matter that candidate A has only 3 second place votes and B has 1000. I know this has to have a name (or at least someone has looked at it and given a nice description of its properties), and I'm interested in seeing how it would apply to multi-winner elections without reinventing the wheel. Thanks! Michael Rouse ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
