[EM] (with paragraphs this time) Comparison of IRV, AIRV an Approval for small groups needing an easy handcount.

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Sorry--It posted without paragraph spacings. I'm going to try to use periods (".") to hold the blank spaces: Also, I've noticed that it wasn't set for plain text, and that setting might avoid the problem. . . Meeting MMC, but having chicken dilemma, Bucklin and Beatpath would serve ok for mutual ma

[EM] Looking for a use for Bucklin. Comparison of IRV, AIRV and Approval for small groups needing an easy handcount.

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Meeting MMC, but having chicken dilemma, Bucklin and Beatpath would serve ok for mutual majorities who were completely mutually trusting and trustworthy. As for Beatpath, there's little point for it, because there are equally easily-counted, and more easiy-counted, methods that meet MMC and _don't_

Re: [EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 106, Issue 2

2013-04-02 Thread Forest Simmons
Jobst has suggested that ballots be used to elicit voter's "consensus thresholds" for the various candidates. If your consensus threshold for candidate X is 80 percent, that means that you would be willing to support candidate X if more than 80 percent of the other voters were also willing to supp