[EM] RE : Re: Student government - what voting system to recommend?

[Tim Hull]

I had actually heard of MMPO before - I do think it does fail later-no-help,
though.  Am I right?
It would be better to find a method that passes both for this purpose...
However, I wonder how well MMPO with a minimum first-place vote threshold
would work...

On 4/25/07, Kevin Venzke <stepjak at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> --- Tim Hull <timhull2 at gmail.com> a écrit:
> > On this topic, does anyone know of a modified,
> > kind-of-Condorcet-but-not-quite method which preserves later-no-harm?
> > This may be interesting as a starting point...
>
> MinMax (pairwise opposition) satisfies LNHarm and usually gives results
> that are similar to those of Condorcet methods. It can behave strangely
> though, in electing a candidate with oddly few votes.
>
> The method elects the candidate who minimizes the largest number of
> votes against him in any pairwise contest. That is, it doesn't regard
> who actually wins each pairwise contest.
>
> Kevin Venzke
>
>
>
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