[EM] Proposal: Majority Enhanced Approval (MEA)

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

Juho,

Thanks for your interest and input.

Having an approval cutoff to rank just like the candidates is a good idea.  On ballots where the cutoff is 
ignored (i.e. truncated) then all ranked candidates are ranked above the cutoff.

In general, I don't think that voters will truncate a decent Condorcet candidate, since voters will tend to rank 
the lesser evil last and truncate the greater evil when they think no really good candidate has a decent 
chance of winning.

Now, changing the subject slightly, remember DMC?   In that method if the second place approval candidate 
beat the approval winner pairwise, then that was enough to keep the approval winner from being elected.  In 
MEA tha's not enough, but if the second place approval candidate covers the approval winner, that is enough 
to keep the approval winner from being elected.  So MEA takes approval somewhat more seriously than 
DMC.

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> You seem to use implicit approval cutoff at the end of the 
> ranked 
> candidates (since you say "based on ranked ballots with 
> truncations 
> allowed"). How about using explicit cutoff? Would that take away 
> 
> something essential? I'd like the left wing voters rank also the 
> right 
> wing candidates and vice versa. Otherwise we might easily lose a 
> 
> sincere Condorcet winner.
> 
> Juho