[EM] Re: RAV/DMC

[Kevin Venzke]

Ted,

--- Araucaria Araucana <araucaria.araucana at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in other parts of the message though -- you stated
> there that you had a special technique for avoiding having to fill in
> 25 votes in the
> 
>         A>>BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> 
> case, but I didn't see how your 2004-11-04 message explained that.
> Maybe I'm just dense or preoccupied.

It's in there, but it's surrounded by discussion. Here is the meat of it:

http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-November/014115.html
>For a given ballot, mark a vote at X,X for every candidate X
>placed in the first or second slot.  Mark a vote at X,Y for
>every candidate X placed in the first slot above a candidate
>Y placed in the middle slot.
>
>A beats B pairwise if A,A - B,A > B,B - A,B.

So using this method, you don't have to mark a vote for A,B through A,Z.
The only vote you mark is at A,A.

> My interpretation of why Jobst 'changed his mind' was that Forest's
> reinterpretation of RAV was much more persuasive than any other
> previous explanation, including your one-line summary.

Well, keep in mind that the purpose of my message was not to advocate using
approval as a measure of defeat strength, but to suggest an easy way to
hand-count three-slot Condorcet. It just happens that my "technique" isn't 
compatible with WV or Margins.

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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