Re: [EM] Random and reproductible tie-breaks

2008-10-01 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Stéphane Rouillon wrote: Hi, for an anti-fraud purpose, the capacity to repeat the counting operation is a must. Hence I recommand to use a reproductible random procedure to break ties. This allows the use of different computers to reproduce the counting operation, while always obtaining the

Re: [EM] the 'who' and the 'what' - trying again

2008-10-01 Thread Michael Allan
Dave Ketchum wrote: I see the Condorcet phantom as going thru the same motions as a real primary or general election, but letting the real elections do the nominating and pay no official attention to results of the phantom. I see a phantom that will nevertheless have real effects (ghost in

Re: [EM] Range-Approval hybrid

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Benham
Kristofer Munsterhjelm: Normalization could be used if required, with either the voter specifying absolutely worst and absolutely best (setting the range), or by the lowest and highest rated candidate having those positions. So if a voter wants to say that he likes all the candidates, but