[EM] What I mean by "strong FBC"

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Mon Apr 5 21:03:10 PDT 2004


Two questions:

(1) what methods actually meet strong FBC?

(2) Assuming ERBucklin means Bucklin where equal-ranking is allowed, why
the "Equal" part?  If it meets strong FBC, why would anyone want to
equal-rank?

Ok, so that's three questions.
Bart


MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> 
> A number of ways have been suggested for making FBC more demanding. Here's
> what I meant by "strong FBC", when I said that ERBucklin(whole) meets Strong
> FBC:
> 
> Strong FBC:
> 
> A voter has a "favorite" if there's 1 candidate whom that voter prefers to
> every one of the other candidates. That candidate is hir favorite.
> 
> In a particular election, by voting another candidate equal to or over hir
> favorite, a voter shouldn't gain an outcome that s/he prefers to every
> outcome that s/he could get in that election without voting another
> candidate equal to or over hir favorite.
> 
> [end of strong FBC definition]
> 
> As I said, when I say "Bucklin", I mean ERBucklin(whole).



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