Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics + a method proposal

2008-05-25 Thread Juho
On May 25, 2008, at 4:16 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: How about Asset Voting? It is a truly brillig method. Simple. Invented over a hundred and twenty years ago. I didn't include Asset Voting or related features since it includes cabinet negotiations between the candidates and the

[Election-Methods] [Election Methods] Bucklin-like method suggestion (following from MCA's IIB problem fixed)

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Benham
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