[EM] Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff

[Forest Simmons]

I should have thought of that. Every method needs two names, one for
public consumption and one for scientific classification, like the latin
names for plants and animals. 

I think the best one for public consumption would be "Instant Majority
Runoff" (IMR).

Forest

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Martin Harper wrote:

> nah - an advertising agency would call it something like "Votex" or
> "Democratum"... ;-) I still like "Instant Round Robin" for the
> Condorcet-like methods, though.
> 
> Anthony Simmons wrote:
> 
> > >> Subject: [EM] A pairwise elimination satisfying
> > >> SFC,SDSC
> >
> > >> INSTANT PAIRWISE ELIMINATION RUNOFF
> >
> > I know this is going to sound really silly, but with
> > the majority of the electorate, the most important
> > factor is what it's called.  "Intant Runoff" sounds
> > like it was chosen by an advertising agency.  Maybe
> > it was.  "Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff" sounds
> > like it was chosen by a mathematician.  :)
> 
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