[EM] Definite Majority Choice

[Russ Paielli]

I was just looking at the wiki page for DMC:

http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Definite_Majority_Choice

I saw this statement:

"DMC chooses the same winner as (and could be considered equivalent in 
most respects to) Ranked Approval Voting (RAV) (also known as Approval 
Ranked Concorcet), and Pairwise Sorted Approval (PSA)."

Do we know for sure that DMC always chooses the same winner as RAV and 
PSA? If so, then in what respects are they *not* equivalent?

If these methods are equivalent, then I think we need to eventually try 
to somehow agree on a common name for public promotion. We might also be 
wise to agree on the simplest explanation, with the more complicated 
explanations used as "backup" material for those who are intellectually 
curious.

The actual name and acronym may be critical to the public salability of 
the method, so we need to be very careful in selecting it. We shouldn't 
rush into it. "Definite Majority Choice" seems too generic and not 
descriptive enough to me, but I am not necessarily opposed to it. I like 
RAV (which I proposed myself), but I don't consider it an ideal name 
either. In any case, we must avoid at all cost using the word "dropping" 
in the name (it sounds too much like something birds do).

One of these days I should crank out a list of possible names/acronyms 
of this method for discussion and perhaps an eventual vote.

--Russ