[EM] proposal: weighted pairwise comparison

[Kevin Venzke]

David,

 --- Dgamble997 at aol.com a écrit :
> One final point I am fairly certain on is that a very similar or identical 
> method has been proposed on this list by somebody else ( possibly Kevin Venzke ) 
> but I'm sure who or when.

I might have.  The closest thing I can find is "Majority Approval Runoff,"
a three-slot method that I had to rescind because it failed Majority Favorite
unless a special case rule was added...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/message/12490
Wed Oct 8, 2003 

But "Demorep" is the first I know of to suggest the sort of method you've
got:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/election-methods-list/message/335
Sun Jul 5, 1998 

>As I have mentioned many times, I suggest that there be a YES/NO vote on each
>candidate in elections for executive and judicial offices along with number
>voting (1, 2, etc) on each choice (since number voting by itself does NOT show
>any approval whatever- all of the choices might be unacceptable to some
>voters).
>
>Only the YES majority candidates would go head to head using the number votes.
>Such YES/NO vote is a form of Approval/Disapproval voting.
>
>Another circular tiebreaker--
>Eliminate the candidate (or remaining candidate) in a tie with the smallest
>YES majority vote and recheck the head to head math to see if there is a
>Condorcet winner among the remaining candidates.

Kevin Venzke
stepjak at yahoo.fr



	

	
		
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