Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-16 Thread Juho
On Mar 15, 2008, at 19:55 , Michael Rouse wrote: I have one concern - the behaviour of the counting method with clones. Let's multiply one of the candidates (A => A1 and A2). Then we would have: 1: A1=10 A2=10 B=2 C=1 D=0 1: A1=10 A2=10 C=7 B=6 D=0 1: B=10 C=6 A1=5 A2=5 D=0 3: C=10 D=5 A1=1 A2=1

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-15 Thread Michael Rouse
Let me know if this is formatted incorrectly -- it word wraps just fine in Thunderbird, but I don't know if other email programs display it correctly. Sorry it's taken so long to reply -- it's been a hectic week. I also apologize for the length of the message, which probably causes eyes to gla

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-09 Thread Juho
The explanation was clear enough for me. I have one concern - the behaviour of the counting method with clones. Let's multiply one of the candidates (A => A1 and A2). Then we would have: 1: A1=10 A2=10 B=2 C=1 D=0 1: A1=10 A2=10 C=7 B=6 D=0 1: B=10 C=6 A1=5 A2=5 D=0 3: C=10 D=5 A1=1 A2=1 B=0 3

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-08 Thread mrouse1
Snipping the message:**On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:45 , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:>> >>Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two other candidates (Y and Z).> >>I find the proposed method interesting s

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-06 Thread Juho
On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:45 , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two other candidates (Y and Z). >>I find the proposed method interesting since it seems to aim at electing go

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:20 PM 3/2/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm curious about voting methods that take ranked ballot methods and >adapt them to range ballots. For example, with Baldwin's method, you >take drop the candidate with the lowest Borda score, recalculate, >and so on. A range variant might drop th

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-02 Thread mrouse1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:>>Check also James Green-Armytage's cardinal-weighted pairwise comparison method if you haven't don that yet. => http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/cwp13.htmThanks, I'll do that!>>Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two othe

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-02 Thread Juho
Check also James Green-Armytage's cardinal-weighted pairwise comparison method if you haven't don that yet. => http:// fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/cwp13.htm Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two other candidates (Y and Z). I find t

[Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-02 Thread mrouse1
Just an addendum from previous post (Minimum Distance Condorcet Completion). I'm curious about voting methods that take ranked ballot methods and adapt them to range ballots. For example, with Baldwin's method, you take drop the candidate with the lowest Borda score, recalculate, and so on. A range