EM vote on SW methods: summary of votes to date

Steve Eppley seppley at alumni.caltech.edu
Sun Jul 28 08:52:42 PDT 1996


Mike O wrote:
>As for how to count equal rankings in an IRO count, I claim that
>both equally-ranked 1st choices should receive a _full_ vote.

That doesn't violate one-person one-vote?  Nor create incentives to
rank a second choice equal to one's first choice? 

Well, at least it keeps the Instant Runoff definition as simple as
possible.  Its only alleged advantage, according to its proponents
in CV&D.  :-) 

---Steve     (Steve Eppley    seppley at alumni.caltech.edu)




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