[EM] Remember Toby

[Jameson Quinn]

2011/6/3 Kathy Dopp <kathy.dopp at gmail.com>

> > From: Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>
> > To: fsimmons at pcc.edu
> > Cc: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
> > Subject: Re: [EM] Remember Toby
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> > I'd add my "safety" fix to the near-clone problem, *if* someone can think
> of
> > an easy way to describe and motivate it. Basically, it looks at any
> > candidate who mutually approve with the winner, and sees if they would
> beat
> > the winner (pairwise) with those mutual approvals turned off. This helps
> > when, for instance (honest preferences):
>
> That sounds like it might work.
>

Thanks!

>
> Here is my simplistic thought on a simplistic electoral method that
> might solve some of plurality's problems without introducing new ones:
>
>
That's not a simple problem, and so it's probably hard to find solutions
that are both simple and new.

I think that your proposal, by arbitrarily setting the number of approvals
at 2, would introduce all kinds of distortions, ranging to the possibly
nightmarish. As a programmer, I know that when I set arbitrary constants in
my programs (except as ids), it almost always leads to bugs.

Jameson
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