Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-05 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Kathy Dopp wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: Thanks Kristofer. I ignored the all* in all others. I must say then, I simply do not like the Droop quota as a criteria because it elects less popular candidates favored by

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-05 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: If you want to minimize unhappiness of the voters by electing candidates  hated by few, you can make the same kind of argument against the majority  criterion for a single-winner method as you did against the

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-05 Thread Jameson Quinn
51: Left Center Right 45: Right Center Left 4: Center Right Left. The majority criterion forces Left to win in a single-winner election. However, Left is hated by 49% of the voters. Just to point out the obvious here: Center would lose even with up to 49% of the vote in this

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-05 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/7/5 Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: If you want to minimize unhappiness of the voters by electing candidates hated by few, you can make the same kind of argument against the majority criterion for

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Juho Laatu
On 3.7.2011, at 20.34, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: I do not like this system and believe it is improper to call it Condorcet. It seems to have all the same flaws as IRV -

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Let me pull an old example again: 45: Left Center Right 45: Right Center Left 10: Center Right Left If there's one seat, Center is the CW; but if you want to elect two, it seems most fair to elect

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Kathy Dopp wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Let me pull an old example again: 45: Left Center Right 45: Right Center Left 10: Center Right Left If there's one seat, Center is the CW; but if you want to elect two, it seems most

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
Thanks Kristofer. I ignored the all* in all others. I must say then, I simply do not like the Droop quota as a criteria because it elects less popular candidates favored by fewer voters overall and eliminates the Condorcet winners some times. The Droop quota seems to go hand in hand with IRV and

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Juho Laatu
On 4.7.2011, at 16.33, Kathy Dopp wrote: I must say then, I simply do not like the Droop quota as a criteria because it elects less popular candidates favored by fewer voters overall and eliminates the Condorcet winners some times. If you want the most popular single candidates to be elected

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Kathy Dopp wrote: Thanks Kristofer. I ignored the all* in all others. I must say then, I simply do not like the Droop quota as a criteria because it elects less popular candidates favored by fewer voters overall and eliminates the Condorcet winners some times. The Droop quota seems to go hand

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
To be clearer: In your scenario 55% of people hate 50% of the winners and 45% hate (ranked last) 50% of the winners. If the Center and Right win, only 45% of the voters hate 50% of the winners and everyone else is happy. In summation: In your example, applying the Droop quota criteria, 100%

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-03 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Kathy Dopp wrote: I do not like this system and believe it is improper to call it Condorcet. It seems to have all the same flaws as IRV - hiding the lower choice votes of voters, except if the voter voted for some of the less popular candidates. Thus, I can see there may be lots of cases when

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: I do not like this system and believe it is improper to call it Condorcet. It seems to have all the same flaws as IRV - hiding the lower choice votes of voters, except if the voter voted for

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-02 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Ross Hyman wrote: A Condorcet divisor method proportional representation procedure is presented that is a variant of Nicolaus Tideman’s Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by Single Transferable Vote (CPO-STV) and Shultz STV but requires the determination of fewer candidate set comparisons than

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-02 Thread Kathy Dopp
the Condorcet winner. Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 22:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Hyman rahy...@sbcglobal.net To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Subject: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation Message-ID:        1309584052.63357.yahoomailclas...@web83607.mail.sp1.yahoo.com

[EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-01 Thread Ross Hyman
A Condorcet divisor method proportional representation procedure is presented that is a variant of Nicolaus Tideman’s Comparison of Pairs of Outcomes by Single Transferable Vote (CPO-STV) and Shultz STV but requires the determination of fewer candidate set comparisons than either.  The method