Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff
Anthony Simmons
asimmons at krl.org
Tue Apr 10 13:38:31 PDT 2001
>> From: Martin Harper <mcnh2 at cam.ac.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [EM] Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff
>> nah - an advertising agency would call it
>> something like "Votex" or "Democratum"... ;-)
>> I still like "Instant Round Robin" for the
>> Condorcet-like methods, though.
There you go :)
So Forest's new system should be called SuperVote
EM, and STV should be called SuperVote Plus with
DoofusGuard*.
(* failure to follow instructions may result in
election of imbeciles)
The Federalist would have read a lot differently
if they'd had television in those days.
>> 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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