Re: [Election-Methods] Elect the Compromise

2007-08-26 Thread rob brown
On 8/25/07, Jobst Heitzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So there are two main devices for solving the challenge: vote trading and randomness. There is a third one! One of the oldest voting methods that have been studied can also solve it at least in part. I wonder who will first see what I

Re: [Election-Methods] Elect the Compromise

2007-08-26 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:59 AM 8/26/2007, rob brown wrote: Vote trading generally means the ballots can't be secret, so elections would be inherently corruptible by anyone with money. This is commonly assumed. But it probably is not true. First of all, the ballots don't have to be personally identified, all that

Re: [Election-Methods] Mixing Condorcet and Approval...

2007-08-26 Thread Chris Benham
Stephane Rouillon wrote: I would suggest a Condorcet method usind residual approbation weights with an approval cut-off (noted | ). It's a mix of Condorcet, IRV and approval. The idea is: 1) to rank candidates using a Condorcet (ranked pairs, winning votes for example) method; 2) eliminate