[EM] election strategy paper, alternative Smith, web site relaunch

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

James Green-Armytage wrote ...
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> I should define these methods here, for clarity. Smith/Hare 
> eliminates 
> all candidates not in the Smith set (minimal dominant set, i.e. 
> the 
> smallest set of candidates such that all members in the set 
> pairwise 
> beat all members outside the set), and then holds an IRV tally 
> among 
> remaining candidates. This method has been floating around this 
> list 
> for a while, yes? Does anyone know of an academic publication 
> that 
> mentions it? I seem to remember reading something that said that 
> it 
> had been named after a person at some point, but I no longer 
> know 
> where I read that.

 Was the name Loring?  I think Loring is an Hare-Condorcet hybrid that doesn't restrict to the Smith set.