[EM] Re: Minimal Improvements on Approval

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

You're probably familiar with this Approval improvement:

Voters cast an Approval ballot, but also vote for a 1st choice. If any 
candidate is 1st choice of a majority, s/he wins. Otherwise the Approval 
winner wins.

Bucklin uses rankings, but is probably the best of the easily-counted rank 
methods. Bucklin is probably the most easily-counted method that meets SDSC.

Your example:

7 A>B
5 B
5 C
3 D>C

SSD, RP, BeatpathWinner/CSSD, Borda,  & Bucklin all choose B.

IRV chooses C.

I haven't adequately replied about the method proposals in that message. 
Which ones would be the best ones to check out? What are the properties of 
the better ones?

Mike Ossipoff

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