[EM] About Condorcet//Approval

Diego Santos diego.renato at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 16:37:22 PDT 2008


2008/10/20 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km-elmet at broadpark.no>

>
> You could also have the approval version of Smith,IRV. Call it
> Condorcet,Approval. I think it's Smith (so it would be Smith,Approval), but
> I'm not sure. The method is this: Drop candidates, starting with the
> Approval loser and moving upwards, until there's a CW. Then that one is the
> winner.
>

This method is Definite Majority Choice. It meets Smith.

>
> Is Condorcet,Approval (Smith,Approval?) nonmonotonic?


Probably not, if you change the position of the approval cutoff. Please
someone confirm.


> If not, and it is Smith, then you have a simple Smith-compliant
> Condorcet/approval method.
>

In DMC there's a possibility to the buriers' faction approve a turkey,
intending to drop the buried candidate as the least approved.

>
>
> These methods would obviously need approval cutoff ballots (unless you go
> with the MDDA assumption, that the approval cutoff is where the voter
> truncates, but I don't think that would be a good idea here).
>



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