[EM] Re: seeking 5 candidate Condorcet example

[Mike]

Thanks for the link. I was trying out a new search engine with the truly 
awful name of Clusty (clusty.com) and found another site you can do 
certain voting comparisons on, though in this case A) Part of the site 
is in French, and B) it only includes three methods, counting  the rule 
used by the international figure skating union (how weird is that?). 
Those that are interested might take a look at

http://www.cirano.qc.ca/corporategovernance/decision.php

The reason I mention it is because I haven't seen another online Kemeny 
calculator. Perhaps someone will be inspired to add that code to the 
wustl.edu calculator :)

As a side note, as others have mentioned there was a good discussion on 
voting methods on Slashdot yesterday. Of course the discussion ranged 
from brilliant to idiotic, but hey that's Slashdot for you (grin). Those 
that are interested should check it out at

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/01/2139227&tid=226

Mike
mrouse1 at mrouse.com

Rob LeGrand wrote:

>Mike Rouse wrote:
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>>How on earth did you come up with that so quickly? It would take
>>me longer just to figure out the winners, let alone come up with
>>an example that worked ( haven't checked it yet, they frown on me
>>doing that at work). If you have a clever trick or program, I
>>demand equal access! :)
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>You can plug that example into
>http://cec.wustl.edu/~rhl1/rbvote/calc.html to find the winners and
>the Smith and Schwartz sets.  Finding an example that worked really
>wasn't hard in this case; I just used my favorite example that
>shows that Ranked Pairs, beatpath and PC are different, which
>happened to fit the other criteria.  However, if that hadn't been
>the case, I would have used my voting simulator to search for an
>example that worked.  I'm not willing to make that code public yet,
>but if you have another request I'll do my best to find an
>appropriate example.  I have quite a few methods coded now,
>including many not yet in the online calculator, like Jobst's river
>method (which I've come to admire greatly, by the way) and your
>"Inverse Nanson", which online I only describe.
>
>Unfortunately, I'm now busy with doctoral studies and research so I
>have much less time these days for ranked-ballot methods.  My
>research concerns single-winner and multiwinner approval-ballot
>methods.  I'm currently at work on two papers which I hope to have
>out before long.
>
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>Rob LeGrand, psephologist
>rob at approvalvoting.com
>Citizens for Approval Voting
>http://www.approvalvoting.org/
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