[EM] Steph: your rating method

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Forest--

You wrote:

The candidate with the maximum median rating is the ER Bucklin (whole) 
winner, assuming that if two candidates have the same median rating R > 0, 
then the one at or above R on the most ballots is the winner.

I reply:

Well that certainly answers my question, when I asked what properties that 
method would have!

It would have some very valuable properties. It sounds like a remarkably 
brief way to define ERBucklin(whole).

You continued:

Ratings are a convenient way of providing for equal rankings and keeping the 
ballots from becoming too unwieldy when there are large numbers of 
candidates, as in a big election without primaries.

I reply:

But how is ratings more convenient than rankings? As long as the voters 
understand that they can give the same rank number to as many as they want 
to, and that rank numbers needn't be consecutive?

Because it's a rank method, wouldn't that be the simple and direct form of 
balloting for it? Wouldn't a ballot presented as a ratings ballot confuse 
people?

Mike Ossipoff

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