Kevin, thanks for your thoughtful response. See some inline responses below:
> Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:51:03 +0100 (BST) > From: Kevin Venzke <step...@yahoo.fr> > To: em <election-meth...@electorama.com> > Subject: Re: [EM] How to find the voters' honest preferences > Message-ID: > <1378666263.87766.yahoomail...@web171502.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > . > > Except for the way you determine the runoff finalists, it reminds me of > what I named Single Contest. > After considering many single contest possibilities I settled on this one because it seemed like the simplest monotonic one: If I improve the winner W's position on the three slot ballot, then she still wins if the two finalists, W and L, remain the same. W will still be a finalist, but what about L? Since W is the only candidate with a score change, if L changes to L', the L' = W, i.e. now W is the only finalist, and therefore she still wins. I'll have to continue in another message, since my time is gone. Forest
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