[EM] Steph: Your rating method

[Paul Kislanko]

See below 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: election-methods-bounces at electorama.com 
> [mailto:election-methods-bounces at electorama.com] On Behalf Of 
> Dave Ketchum
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:38 PM
 
> Do you have to go back and look at the ballots after deciding 
> on value of 
> R?  Gets messy with many ballots such as for governor.

No. You can process ER-Buckln tallies using a square matrix of dimension =
number alternatives = number possible ranks.

Just record the total number of times alternative X is ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
etc.

I use a method very similar to Bucklin to come up with the ordered list of
the "consensus" of 94 computer rankings (voters) of 119 American College
Football teams. See http://football.kislanko.com/2005/bucklincomps.html for
a current example.

Equal rankings and truncation are allowed, but in my "voter" population they
occur infrequently.