[EM] Cloneproof SSD

Blake Cretney bcretney at postmark.net
Mon Jan 15 22:59:39 PST 2001


"MIKE " <nkklrp at hotmail.com>, on the subject of '[EM] Cloneproof  SSD',
is quoted as:

>It's known that, in public elections, where there are no pairwise ties
>or equal defeats, SSD chooses the same winner as BeatpathWinner
>(aka "Schulze's method"). In small committee elections where
>pairwise ties can happen, Cloneproof SSD appears to meet every
>criterion that BeatpathWinner meets. Can anyone name a way in
>which BeatpathWinner is better than Cloneproof SSD? That latter
>method has the natural & obvious motivation & justification that
>BeatpathWinner completely lacks. Sure, BeatpathWinner can be justified
>in terms of criteria, and they're really what's important. But
>the public would expect the count rule itself to make sense, to
>have obvious motivation & jusification. Aside from criteria,
>BeatpathWinner's only obvious motivation is that it's an
implementation
>of Cloneproof SSD.

I consider Beatpath winner to be slightly simpler than SSD.  What is
SSD's obvious motivation?

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Blake Cretney




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