Halfway Bucklin Tiebreaker
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Tue Jun 30 11:38:16 PDT 1998
Supplement 1
More on the theory--
DC = Desired Choices, CC = Compromise Choices (i.e. lesser of evils choices),
OC = Opposed Choices, N = Number of votes for each type of vote
N1 DC CC OC
N2 DC CC OC
N3 DC CC OC
N4 DC CC OC
N5 DC CC OC
N6 DC CC OC
etc.
If there is a Condorcet circular tie, then at the halfway choice column
(column 2 for 3 or 4 tied choices, column 3 for 5 or 6 tied choices, etc.)
using Bucklin's accumulation of votes for each choice, there will be a choice
with the most accumulated votes.
The above has the tied choices only such that the method might be called
Majority//Condorcet//Smith//Halfway Bucklin or MACOSHAB.
(the *Majority* being my suggested YES/NO vote on each choice and Smith to
deal with the slight possibility of subset ties)
For legislative bodies (with 1 effective vote), only the Condorcet and Halfway
Bucklin parts would apply to those candidates who are not Condorcet winners
(CW) or Condorcet losers (CL).
Example- elect 5 legislators in a district, 9 candidates
CW1 CW2 CW3 C1 C2 C3 C4 CL1 CL2
CW1 to CW3 win in all of their combinations of 5 versus any other 4
CL1 to CL 2 lose in all of their combinations of 5 versus any other 4
C1 to C4 are in a circular tie for the 2 remaining positions
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