[EM] Does MAM use the Copeland method?

[Paul Kislanko]

I have argued before that the analysis of election methods should be broken
into two parts - how to collect ballots which should should be general
enough to support any counting method.

The list dismissed this, which Jobst also suggested. Are we now saying that
Jobst was right? I'd like the collection, translation, and counting methods
expressed in mathematical terms instead of hypothetical english expositions
that can be misinterpreted. 

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> ] On Behalf Of Eric Gorr
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:55 PM
> To: election-methods at electorama.com
> Subject: RE: [EM] Does MAM use the Copeland method?
> 
> At 3:40 PM -0500 10/6/04, Paul Kislanko wrote:
> >  > I am beginning to like this idea myself. One could extend the
> >>  grades allowed a bit, without leaving what would be well  
> understood 
> >> by the voters with including the +, - grades as well.
> >>
> >>  This gives 14 possible bins (A+ A A-, ... , D+ D D-, F, 
> E) in  which 
> >> to place candidates, which should be more then enough.
> >>
> >  > Using this method solves the most troublesome user 
> interface issues.
> >
> >Yes, but this is just Borda, which nobody likes.
> >
> 
> No, it is not.
> 
> Read the comments again...convert the grades into a ranked 
> ballot which can then be feed into any ranked ballot method, like MAM.
> 
> The issue here is merely how to collect the ranked ballots. 
> Any interface which attempts to allow a voter to rank X 
> number of ballots (where X is probably greater then 20 or so) 
> will be quite cumbersome.
> 
> With this method, a voter can just go down the list and give 
> each candidate a grade.
> 
> Now, what _might_ be confusing for the voter is that these 
> two different gradings would actually be equivalent...
> 
> C1: A   C1: B-
> C2: D   C2: C
> C3: F   C3: D+
> 
> However, I don't think any collection method can be perfect 
> when a large number of candidates are involved...this one 
> just seems to have the fewest disadvantages for the voter.
> 
> (One can, of course, still provide an optional feature for 
> the voter to give the explicit rankings for the candidates)
> 
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