[EM] alternative Smith?

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Tue Nov 1 07:27:56 PST 2005


James,

--- James Green-Armytage <jarmyta at antioch-college.edu> a écrit :
> 	If we want to make a variant of alternative Smith that is more
> truncation-safe, how about "eliminate the plurality loser until only one
> candidate remains in the 'inner Smith set' "?
> 
> 	Defining "inner Smith set": (A subset of the Smith set, but not
> necessarily a strict subset.) If one or more members of the Smith set are
> not pairwise beaten by any majority, they form the inner Smith set.
> Otherwise, it is identical to the Smith set. 
> 	I imagine that this definition is identical to something that has been
> posted previously, but I don't know what the name is. If anyone has time,
> it might be good to post these things on the electowiki.

Your definition isn't compatible with clone independence.

Maybe you could take the intersection of Schwartz and CDTT. Although, Schulze(wv)
already always elects from this intersection.

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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