[EM] MDD,ER-Bucklin(whole)

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

MDD,ER-Bucklin(whole) has the benefits of MDDA, but adds more. In 
particular, it adds Mutual Majority Criterion compliance. That means that 
the method has majority-enforcement by MMC in addition to SFC.

Majority enforcement by criteria like SFC &/or MMC is what makes it safe to 
rank as many candidates as you want to, to safely overshoot the CW, if it's 
uncertain which candidate is the CW. Majority-enforcement is what makes the 
best rank methods virtuallly free of strategy concern.

It makes it possible to say that the strategy is to rank as many candidates 
as you want to, as long as you rank at least down to the CW.

I'm not saying that SFC isn't enough. But, if we're looking for the best 
method for the conditions and electorate that we have now, without regard to 
proposability, then MDD,ER-Bucklin(whole) looks like the best.

Simplicity is so important in the United States that I'd probably stick with 
the simpler MDDA. I don't think its SFC compliance would fail to enforce 
majority pairwise votes unless there's a majority-strength circular tie.

MDD,ER-Bucklin(whole) is better, more deluxe, with more majority 
protections. Maybe the fact that Bucklin is already well-known would make 
that method proposable, especially if first introduced in cities that have 
used Bucklin. If it can win then I'm all for proposing MDD,ER-Bucklin(whole) 
  instead of MDDA.

Mike Ossipoff

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