[EM] final support

[Forest W Simmons]

Approval Margins should have been on my list of most promising, even 
though it is not as well known as the three that I mentioned.  Total 
Approval would not be that well known except that DMC has received a 
lot of attention, and DMC is equivalent to River(TA), etc. which, 
admittedly, may not be that well known.

A compromise between Winning Votes and Total Approval that doesn't go 
as far as Final Support would be this:

The number of ballots on which X is ranked strictly above Y plus the 
number of ballots on which X is both approved and ranked equal to Y.

I'll try to think if there is a good way to incorporate Approval 
Margins into some combination of the other most promising measures.

Forest




Chris Benham wrote ...


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>Forest,
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>Why isn't  
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>"Approval Margins: the number of ballots on which the pairwise winner 
is 
>approved minus the
>number of ballots on which the pairwise defeated alternative is 
approved"
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>on your list of  "most promising measures of defeat strength.."?
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>Chris Benham
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