[EM] QLTD

[Kevin Venzke]

Mike, Chris, maybe Forest,

 --- MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp at hotmail.com> a écrit : > 
> Kevin said:
> I agree that Jones wins in Bucklin.
> 
> I reply:
> You agree with whom that Jones wins in that Bucklin example? Did anyone say 
> that Jones won in Bucklin?

This was a mistake.

> But Ordered Bucklin, and maybe QLTD, adds to the count labor of 
> Bucklin, and that can defeat Bucklin's advantage: An easy handcount.

QLTD wouldn't.  You don't need any more information than Bucklin does.

>In spirit of Bucklin, it would be best to give victory to the candidate who 
>needs the smallest fraction of hir votes that s/he received in the final 
>round, the one that gave to hir a majority.
>
>That might be one of the solutiions that Forest suggested.

That is QLTD actually.

Chris wrote:
>Obviously  single-winner QLTD is easier  and quicker to 
>hand-count  than Bucklin, because if  a candidate
>takes the lead after any given round, it is sufficient to show that that 
>candidate gains a majority on the next round to
>declare that candidate the winner. There is no need to check if any 
>other candidate also gets a majority, and then see
>which majority is the biggest.

So this part isn't so.  But QLTD does pick the winners Chris said it picks
in those two scenarios.

Kevin Venzke
stepjak at yahoo.fr



	

	
		
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