[EM] Re: seeking 5 candidate Condorcet example

[Rob LeGrand]

Mike Rouse wrote:
> 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! :)

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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