[EM] Forest Simmons new cloneproof simple Condorcet method
Warren Smith
wds at math.temple.edu
Sat Dec 30 19:21:31 PST 2006
>Forest Simmons:
Here's a version that is both clone proof and monotonic:
The winner is the alternative A with the smallest number of ballots on which alternatives that beat A
pairwise are ranked in first place. [shared first place slots are counted fractionally]
That's it.
This method satisfies the Smith Criterion, Monotonicity, and Clone Independence.
--WDS:
this is an elegant method!
Note that it is IMMUNE to my "DH3 pathology!"
http://rangevoting.org/DH3.html
It is strategically pointless to "bury" (lower artificially) a rival
to your favorite below some non-entities, because if those nonentitites are never
ranked top, doing so makes no difference.
And it satisfies mono-add-plump and mono-append (two Woodall criteria)!
And it is simple!
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