New SW method: Weighting with elimination etc.

[Steve Eppley]

Mike Ossipoff wrote:
> Steve Eppley writes:
>> DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
>> [snip]
>> >Any method must guarantee that a candidate with a majority of the
>> >first choice votes wins
>> [snip]
>> 
>> This criterion is not universally accepted.  Some people believe
>> that if the majority's support of their first choice is only lukewarm
>> (compared to their second choice, etc.), and the minority is strongly
>> opposed to that choice, then the majority's candidate shouldn't
>> necessarily win. 
>
>Ideally, maybe, but this depends on the assumption of sincere
>point ratings.
[snip]

I agree that the ability to vote strategically may sink voting
methods which attempt to measure the intensity of the voters'
preferences.  But I'm not sure that this argument is what was 
behind Demorep1's blanket assertion. 

Casting weighted ballots under the influence of truth serum may be
the best method, awaiting only the development of an effective and
benign truth serum.  But this method fails the Demorep1 Criterion. 

--Steve