[EM] Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff

Martin Harper mcnh2 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Apr 8 09:54:35 PDT 2001


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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