Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-15 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Raph Frank wrote: If you mean the Droop proportionality criterion: no, it doesn't. Since no reweighting is done in the first round, it elects the Condorcet winner then, and that's incompatible with the DPC. What about running the process for double the number of steps as there are seats. If

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-15 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer re: ... would be good for the petition to include information about the level of the person who originated it. My initial reaction to this suggestion was unfavorable, oddly, for the very reason you thought it worthwhile; fear that petitions coming from the lower

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-15 Thread Raph Frank
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so. Though I haven't investigated this method, I'm thinking that since it uses a divisor method (Sainte-Laguë), there would be instances where it breaks quota, just like ordinary Sainte-Laguë breaks

Re: [EM] Three rounds

2008-11-15 Thread Raph Frank
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The single-winner criterion corresponding to the DPC is the mutual majority criterion. Any method that's Smith also passes mutual majority, and since Condorcet is just the case of the Smith set being a singleton,