[EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-26 Thread Chris Benham
 ranking above bottom as approval) such as the Smith//Approval(ranking) method I endorse? Or if you think that it is justified for a candidate with a very big approval score to beat a majority favourite with less approval, why not simply promote the plain Approval method? Chris Benham

[EM] good method ? , was IRV ballot pile count (proof of closed form)

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Benham
good about it? Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Simple monotonicity question

2010-02-20 Thread Chris Benham
winner and now IRV elects B, a failure of mono-raise.   49: ACB 26: BA 25: CB   Chris Benham __ Yahoo!7: Catch-up on your favourite Channel 7 TV shows easily, legally, and for free at PLUS7. www.tv.yahoo.com.au

[EM] Smith, FPP fails Minimal Defense and Clone-Winner

2010-03-10 Thread Chris Benham
think should win this election? 25: AB 26: BC 23: CA 26: C CA 75-25,  AB 49-26,  BC 51-49     Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Multiwinner Bucklin - proportional, summable (n^3), monotonic (if fully-enough ranked)

2010-03-28 Thread Chris Benham
for?  Does top-two runoffs mean a second trip to the polls? How are the candidates scored to determine the top two? Is it based on the candidates' scores after the second Bucklin round? Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Classifying 3-cand scenarios. LNHarm methods again.

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Benham
a voted CW if there is one. Some Condorcet-complying methods are clone-proof and some aren't. Chris Benham   On Apr 17, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, Dave Ketchum wrote (18 April 2010): Why IRV? Have we not buried that deep enough? Why not Condorcet which does better with about

[EM] MinMax(AWP) and Participation

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Benham
or take seriously that actually fails this criterion? Chris Benham Forest Simmons wrote (21 April 2010): I don't know if Juho is still cheering for MinMax as a public proposal. I used to be against it because of its clone dependence, but now that I realize

[EM] Proposal: Majority Enhanced Approval (MEA)

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Benham
of mono-raise, but probably only in a complicated not very likely example. Chris Benham Forest Simmons wrote (8 May 2010): I have a proposal that uses the same pairwise win/loss/tie information that Copeland is based on, along with the complementary information that Approval is based

[EM] Scenario where IRV and Asset outperform Condorcet, Range, Bucklin, Approval.

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Benham
the members of the Smith set eligible for the second round, which uses simple Approval.   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] The general form of Quick Runoff

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Benham
that version simply dominate (in terms of desirable criterion compliances) the QR you've defined (that uses the FPP order)? Compared to plain DSC it seems to just gain compliance with Condorcet(Gross) Loser in exchange for losing compliance with Irrelevant Ballots.   Chris Benham Kevin Venzke

[EM] SMD,TR fails the Plurality criterion.

2010-05-27 Thread Chris Benham
  MAO score is the approval score of the most approved candidate on ballots that don't approve X). Elect the undisqualified candidate with the highest top-ratings score.* http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2008-December/023530.html Chris Benham    Kevin Venzke

[EM] Bucklin-like method meeting Favorite Betrayal and Irrelevant Ballots

2010-05-28 Thread Chris Benham
of the candidates allowed to win in the first round B has the highest TR score and so wins. And in any case on ballots that don't top-rate C  (35A, 10A=B, BC)  A has an approval score of  45 so B is the only candidate that is allowed to win in the first round. Thanks for taking an interest Chris

[EM] Tanking advantage of cycle proof conditions

2010-06-01 Thread Chris Benham
an example of it failing the Plurality criterion.   Does it meet that criterion? Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] methods based on cycle proof conditions

2010-06-03 Thread Chris Benham
. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] methods based on cycle proof conditions

2010-06-04 Thread Chris Benham
majority favourite and the big voted  raw range winner, and yet  B wins. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Irrelevant Ballots Independent Fallback Approval (IBIFA)

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Benham
that use a fixed number of ratings slots, if necessary electing the most approved candidate.* This is analogous with ER-Bucklin(whole) on ranked ballots: http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/ER-Bucklin Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Condorcet question - why not bullet vote?

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Benham
who are mainly interested in getting their strict favourites elected will and should bullet vote. What is wrong with that? Chris Benham   Dear all, dear Markus Schulze,I got a second question from one of our members (actually the same guy which asked for the first time): If I just

[EM] Looking for the name of a Bucklin variant

2010-08-25 Thread Chris Benham
it meeting Majority for Solid Coalitions, his Plurality criterion, mono-raise, mono-remove-bottom, mono-raise-delete, mono-sub-plump, mono-add-plump, mono-append and Later-no-Help. And failing Clone-Winner, Clone-Loser, Condorcet, mono-add-top, mono-sub-top and Later-no-Harm. Chris Benham

Re: [EM] Enhanced DMC

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Benham
if we take a candidate X's highest gross pairwise score as X's approval score. Can you see any problem with that? Chris Benham - Original Message - From: Date: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:12 pm Subject: Enhanced DMC To: election-methods at lists.electorama.com, From

Re: [EM] Enhanced DMC

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Benham
vulnerable to Push-over strategy.   (To be fair, Woodall has demonstrated that no Condorcet method can meet mono-raise-delete.)     Chris Benham    From: Ted Stern araucaria.arauc...@gmail.com To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Cc: Forest Simmons fsimm

[EM] Enhanced DMC (correction)

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Benham
* strategy was more apt for the methods I referred to.   Chris Benham     --- I  like this.  Regarding how approval is inferred, I'm also happy with Forest's idea of using Range (aka Score) type ballots (on which voters give their most preferred candidates the highest numerical scores

Re: [EM] IRV variants

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Benham
Forest, the IRV- Condorcet you describe here is a simpler solution, as long as you allow equal rankings, and count them as whole (as opposed to fractional):   I am strongly opposed to allowing  equal ranking (except for truncation) in IRV or  IRV-like Condorcet methods.  As I've explained

Re: [EM] An ABE solution

2011-11-21 Thread Chris Benham
optimal strategy, so that isn't relavent. http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/FBC   http://nodesiege.tripod.com/elections/#critfbc Chris  Benham         From: fsimm...@pcc.edu fsimm...@pcc.edu To: C.Benham cbenha...@yahoo.com.au Cc: em election-meth...@electorama.com

Re: [EM] An ABE solution

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Benham
or better by voting BA or  BC or B this is a failure of the FBC.     Chris Benham  From: fsimm...@pcc.edu fsimm...@pcc.edu Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 9:01 AM Subject: Re: An ABE solution voters to avoid the middle slot.  Then the method reduces to Approval, which

Re: [EM] An ABE solution

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Benham
middle-rating to make a score of  19, B has 8 top-ratings and 1 middle-rating to make a score of  17, and A has 5 top-ratings and 2 middle-ratings to make a score of 12. Chris  Benham   From: Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 5:39 AM

[EM] Approval vs. IRV (hopefully tidier re-send)

2011-11-28 Thread Chris Benham
Later-no-Harm and Invulnerability to Burial to either the Condorcet or  FBC criteria. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Two more 3-slot FBC/ABE solutions (not)

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Benham
that meets the FBC.   Chris Benham   From: Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com To: C.Benham cbenha...@yahoo.com.au Cc: em election-meth...@electorama.com Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 5:11 AM Subject: Re: [EM] Two more 3-slot FBC/ABE solutions In fact

[EM] 3 or more choices - Condorcet

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Benham
).   In the example Losing Votes elects A. Winning Votes elects C which I'm fine with, but I don't like Winning Votes for other reasons. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] 3 or more choices - Condorcet

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Benham
CWP, but it is far too complicated with not enough bang for buck.  I prefer Smith//Approval (ranking), or a method that Forest and I discussed a  while ago. It is a bit better (and more elegant) than Smith//Approval, and nearly always gives the same winner. Chris Benham Election-Methods

[EM] Name of Weak Participation

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Benham
the defeat of the candidate whom it votes over all of the other candidates. [end of Weak Participation definition]   Mono-add-Top.   http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Mono-add-top_criterion   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Losing Votes (ERABW)

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Benham
    On 16 Nov 2012 07:29:52 -0800, Chris Benham wrote: It isn't a big deal if Ranked Pairs or River are used instead of Schulze.  Losing Votes means that the pairwise results are weighed purely by the number of votes on the losing side. The weakest defeats are those with the most votes

[EM] TTR,MinMax, Losing Votes (TERW)

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Benham
winner. Chris Benham I wrote (Tues.20 Nov 2012): I have an idea for a not-very-sinple FBC-complying method that behaves like ICT with 3 candidates, but better handles more candidates and ballots with more than 3 ratings-slots or ballots that allow full ranking of the candidates.   *Voters rank

[EM] Losing Votes (ERABW)

2012-12-13 Thread Chris Benham
of the ballots.  Given that we are seeking to convert supporters of FPP (and to I hope a lesser extent, IRV), I think that is a marketing advantage. Chris Benham But there is no case for electing B, other than Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Losing Votes (ERABW)

2012-12-17 Thread Chris Benham
their Favourite elected versus the sincere CW. The Losing Votes method I advocate goes for the latter. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Does Top Two Approval fail the Favorite Betrayal Criterion [?]

2013-06-08 Thread Chris Benham
  Now the top-2 runoff is between Right and Centre-Right and Centre-Right wins 51-49. Seven voters have succeeded with a Compromise strategy.   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] A better 2-round method that uses approval ballots

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Benham
for A. This destroys the incentive for parties to field 2 candidates, and greatly reduces the Push-over incentive (to about the same as in normal plurality-ballot Top-2 Runoff). Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Participation Criteria and Bucklin - perhaps they *can* work together after all?

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Benham
post) of the Plurality criterion is wrong.   Chris Benham   Benjamin Grant wrote (17 June 2013): OK, let's assume that as defined, Bucklin fails Participation. Let me specify a new criteria, which already either has its own name that I do not know, or which I can call Prime Participation

Re: [EM] Participation Criteria and Bucklin - perhaps they *can* work together after all?

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Benham
ballots then Y wins in the second round.   Chris Benham  At 03:58 PM 6/17/2013, Chris Benham wrote: Benjamin, The criterion (criteria is the plural) you suggest is not new. It is called Mono-add-Top, and comes from Douglas Woodall. It is met by IRV and MinMax(Margins) but is failed by Bucklin

[EM] Question about the Plurality Criterion

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Benham
criterion.   The method meets the Condorcet criterion and Mono-add-Top. It has been promoted here by Juho Laatu.   Chris Benham       Ben grant wrote (24 June 2013):   As I have had it explained to me, the Plurality Criterion is: If there are two candidates X and Y so that X has more first place

[EM] Score Voting and Approval Voting not practically substantially different from Plurality?

2013-06-24 Thread Chris Benham
indicator of which candidates are really weak.   So I don't see compliance with the Favorite Betrayal Criterion as pointless.   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] MAV on electowiki

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Benham
will always pairwise beat the Bucklin (or Majority Judgement) winner. Chris Benham Jameson Quinn wrote (19 June 2013):   Here's the current version of the article. Note the new paragraph on strategy at the bottom. - Majority Approval Voting (MAV) is a modern, evaluativehttp://wiki.electorama.com

[EM] Preferential voting system where a candidate may win multiple seats

2013-06-27 Thread Chris Benham
advice from them) doing cynical preference-swap deals, motivated by nothing but increasing the chance that they will get an extra seat (by having the biggest surplus fraction of a quota). I hope that helps. Chris Benham Vidar Wahlberg wrote (26 June 2013): Greetings! I'm new here, I'm

[EM] MAV on electowiki

2013-06-27 Thread Chris Benham
-electorama.com/2012-January/029577.html Chris Benham Jameson Quinn wrote (27 June 2013): 2013/6/26 Chris Benham cbenha...@yahoo.com.au Jameson,   I don't like this version at all. These methods all have the problem that the voters have a strong incentive to just submit approval ballots, i.e. only

[EM] Preferential voting system where a candidate may win multiple seats

2013-06-27 Thread Chris Benham
the Later-no-Harm criterion. The problem you allude to I am sure would affect very few seats. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] MAV on electowiki

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Benham
care that it fails FBC?Condorcet//Approval is pretty simple (and IMO quite good). Am I right in assuming that you only like methods that meet FBC or Condorcet and maybe Mono-raise? And/or are biased towards electing centrists?  And for some or all of these reasons you don't like IRV? Chris Benham

[EM] Preferential voting system where a candidate may win multiple seats

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Benham
clear. Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Preferential voting system where a candidate may win multiple seats

2013-06-29 Thread Chris Benham
/candidate will represent other voters.   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Preferential voting system where a candidate may win multiple seats

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Benham
tied up in the quotas of definitely elected candidates have no other say in who is elected or eliminated.   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Quotaless STV-PR suggestion

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Benham
. It is much simpler than Meek to explain and operate, but seems (from some examples I've seen) to give Meek-like results.   Chris Benham Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Quotaless STV-PR suggestion

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Benham
On 07/02/2013 07:09 PM, Chris Benham wrote: I am sure this meets Droop Proportionality for Solid Coalitions.   Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (3 July 2013): Does that mean that the method reduces to largest remainders Droop when the voters vote for all candidates of a single party each

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