[Election-Methods] RE : Re: Improved Approval Runoff

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 09:04 AM 8/22/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
>I wouldn't choose it either. This comment of mine is a response to you
>seeming to claim that if a method allows equal-ranking and truncation,
>this is a sufficient condition for it to be called "Condorcet/Approval."
>
>If that's not what you were saying than I wonder what you meant in your
>first mail that used the term "Condorcet/Approval"?

I was not aware when I wrote that of a method called, specifically 
"Condorcet/Approval." I now see a wiki page on it, specifically on 
Improved Condorcet/Approval. I was not claiming that any Condorcet 
method allowing equal ranking and truncation was *this* particular 
method. In particular, I did not state that approval would be used to 
resolve cycles.

There are lots of Condorcet methods, of course. But allowing equal 
ranking and truncation causes most of them to take on aspects of 
Approval, and, of course, voters could elect to cast what are 
essentially approval ballots. If all of them did, I would assume that 
the Approval winner would win....