Re: [EM] Does High Resolution Range offer a solution to the ABE?

2011-11-27 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/11/26 fsimm...@pcc.edu While working with MinMaxCardinalRatingsPairwiseOpposition (MMcrwPO) I got an idea that high resolution Range might have an acceptable solutin to the defection problem that we have been considering: Sincere ballots 49 C x: AB y: BA where x appears to be

Re: [EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
matt welland wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 22:31 -0500, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 11/26/11 6:58 PM, matt welland wrote: Also, do folks generally see approval as better than or worse than IRV? they don't know anything about Approval (or Score or Borda or Bucklin or Condorcet) despite

Re: [EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.

2011-11-27 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/11/27 matt welland m...@kiatoa.com On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 22:31 -0500, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 11/26/11 6:58 PM, matt welland wrote: Also, do folks generally see approval as better than or worse than IRV? they don't know anything about Approval (or Score or Borda or Bucklin

Re: [EM] Jameson: MTA, MJ, MTAOC, SODA

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: If one is going to propose a method involving proxies, then Proxy DD is the biggest and most ambitious improvment. I described it in a posting when you asked about it. Though it's a much more ambitious thing to ask for, maybe people _would_ want a good proxy system such

[EM] STV and single constraints, like gender quotas

2011-11-27 Thread Peter Zbornik
Dear all, do anyone of you know the best way to incorporate single constraints into STV and proportional rankings from STV (see for instance: http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/issue9/p5.htm)? For instance, the constraint can be that at least 1/3 of the elected seats go to candidates of each gender.

Re: [EM] Jameson: MTA, MJ, MTAOC, SODA

2011-11-27 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/11/26 MIKE OSSIPOFF nkk...@hotmail.com Jameson: You said: There are other methods which you don't mention even though their advantages are similar to those of the ones you do. 2011/11/25 MIKE OSSIPOFF nkk...@hotmail.com Regarding the co-operation/defection problem, there are

Re: [EM] MMPO tiebreakers that don't violate FBC.

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote: Mike, I like MMPO2 because (unlike MMPO1) it takes into account opposition from supporters of eliminated candidates, so is more broad based, and it is easily seen to satisfy the FBC. Also it allows more brad based support than MMPO3 where only the support by top raters

Re: [EM] STV and single constraints, like gender quotas

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Peter Zbornik wrote: Dear all, do anyone of you know the best way to incorporate single constraints into STV and proportional rankings from STV (see for instance: http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/issue9/p5.htm)? For instance, the constraint can be that at least 1/3 of the elected seats go to

Re: [EM] STV and single constraints, like gender quotas

2011-11-27 Thread Peter Zbornik
Hi Kristofer, I don't consider Schulze STV, only standard STV (IRV-based, fractional static Droop quotas, not meek), since it is the only method, which is simple to explain to non-enthusiasts and widely used and have tested and widely used software support for vote counting. I guess, that by the

Re: [EM] STV and single constraints, like gender quotas

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Peter Zbornik wrote: Hi Kristofer, I don't consider Schulze STV, only standard STV (IRV-based, fractional static Droop quotas, not meek), since it is the only method, which is simple to explain to non-enthusiasts and widely used and have tested and widely used software support for vote

Re: [EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.

2011-11-27 Thread Juho Laatu
On 27.11.2011, at 8.05, matt welland wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 22:31 -0500, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 11/26/11 6:58 PM, matt welland wrote: Also, do folks generally see approval as better than or worse than IRV? they don't know anything about Approval (or Score or Borda or Bucklin

Re: [EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
David L Wetzell wrote: The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto center. But positioning yourself around the de facto center is dangerous in IRV. You might get center-squeezed unless either you or your voters start using strategic

Re: [EM] STV and single constraints, like gender quotas

2011-11-27 Thread James Gilmour
Peter If you haven't already found the Church of England Regulations for STV with constraints, they are here: http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1307318/stv%20regulations.doc These are the only published regulations for STV with constraints that I know of. Your first link (below) is to

Re: [EM] STV and single constraints, like gender quotas

2011-11-27 Thread Juho Laatu
On 27.11.2011, at 12.55, Peter Zbornik wrote: Dear all, do anyone of you know the best way to incorporate single constraints into STV and proportional rankings from STV (see for instance: http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/issue9/p5.htm)? For instance, the constraint can be that at least 1/3

Re: [EM] Approval vs. IRV

2011-11-27 Thread Kathy Dopp
Nov 2011 23:05:49 -0700 From: matt welland m...@kiatoa.com I wasn't clear. I want to hear opinions from the list: Is approval better or worse than IRV and why? Approval is a far superior system to FPTP and IRV because approval: 1. unlike FPTP and IRV, it solves the spoiler problem of a

Re: [EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.

2011-11-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
David L Wetzell wrote: KM:I think this is where we differ, really. On a scale from 0 to 1, you think their relative merit is something like: 0: Plurality 0.7: IRV3/AV3 0.72: Condorcet, MJ, etc while I think it's something like: 0: Plurality 0.25: IRV

Re: [EM] Approval vs. IRV

2011-11-27 Thread Juho Laatu
On 27.11.2011, at 18.35, Kathy Dopp wrote: Nov 2011 23:05:49 -0700 From: matt welland m...@kiatoa.com I wasn't clear. I want to hear opinions from the list: Is approval better or worse than IRV and why? Approval is a far superior system to FPTP and IRV because approval: 1. unlike FPTP

Re: [EM] Robert Bristow Johnson wrt Burlington et al.

2011-11-27 Thread David L Wetzell
dlw: The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto center. KM: But positioning yourself around the de facto center is dangerous in IRV. You might get center-squeezed unless either you or your voters start using strategic lesser-evil logic - the

Re: [EM] An ABE solution

2011-11-27 Thread Kevin Venzke
Mike, De : MIKE OSSIPOFF nkk...@hotmail.com À : election-meth...@electorama.com Envoyé le : Samedi 26 Novembre 2011 13h39 Objet : [EM] An ABE solution This was answered in the first part of the paragraph that you're quoting. What Woodall calls a preferential election rule is by definition a

Re: [EM] Re : An ABE solution

2011-11-27 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi Jameson,     My perspective is the following: 1. Most real-world elections will have a sincere CW, although that might not be visible from the ballots. 1a. Those elections without a sincere CW don't really have a wrong answer, so I don't worry as much about the pathologies in that case. 2.

Re: [EM] Robert Bristow Johnson wrt Burlington et al.

2011-11-27 Thread Jameson Quinn
dlw: I believe you're serious. Like I said, I'm not that motivated by money(especially for a guy with a PhD in Econ.) It's a byproduct of me being an aspie. So I'd feel bad about taking you up on the 2nd one and the first bet is inadequately framed in my view C'mon. Neither of

Re: [EM] Robert Bristow Johnson wrt Burlington et al.

2011-11-27 Thread David L Wetzell
meh, I don't want to take bet number 1. This list-serve is skewed towards smart and politically-interested folks, who equally importantly tend to be arm-chair/list-serve/blog activists. Methinks, we tend to project our attributes too much onto the general voting population as a matter of wishful

Re: [EM] Re to Kristof M

2011-11-27 Thread David L Wetzell
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, David L Wetzell wetze...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a bunch of responses dlw: SL may be more proportional than LR Hare, but since I'm advocating for the use of a mix of single-winner and multi-winner election rules, I have no problems with the former being biased

[EM] ranked pair method that resolves beath path ties.

2011-11-27 Thread Ross Hyman
When beat path produces a tie, this method can produce a single winner unless the tie is genuine.  It is the same method I presented earlier except for the addition of the Removing step, which resolves the ties. Candidates are classed in two categories: Winners and Losers.  Initially, all

Re: [EM] ranked pair method that resolves beat path ties.

2011-11-27 Thread robert bristow-johnson
so this is interesting. it seems to be an extension of Tideman ranked-pairs that considers first the margins and then the opposing votes (or winning votes for the opponent) to break ties. is that essentially it? On 11/27/11 10:21 PM, Ross Hyman wrote: When beat path produces a tie, this

Re: [EM] ranked pair method that resolves beath path ties.

2011-11-27 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Ross Hyman, you wrote (27 Nov 2011): A and B are both winners. A is in B's set and B is in A's set. So A is deleted from B's set and B is deleted from A's set. A(W): A(W), C(L), D(L) B(W): B(W), C(L), D(L) C(L): A(W), B(W), C(L), D(L) D(L): A(W), B(W), C(L), D(L) affirm A B