[EM] Poll for favorite single winner voting system with OpaVote

MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp at hotmail.com
Sat Oct 15 13:33:58 PDT 2011


> MMPO isn't usually defined as a Condorcet method, though it is very nearly one.
.
Ok, then, as usually defined, MMPO does what that example shows it doing. But, 
with an initial CW search, it does very much like PC.
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>From the criteria standpoint, MMPO was attractive because it satisfied weak FBC
> as well as Later-no-harm. It also satisfies SFC, and in the three-candidate case,
> it won't fail SDSC.
. 
I'd forgotten that MMPO (and maybe PC?) could fail SDSC in larger elections. I've been
away for quite a while.
.
> the defensive truncation strategy is still viable and
> recommended (by me, anyway).
 
Certainly. Defensive truncation is what thwarts offensive order-reversal so well
in the wv methods and in MMPO.
 

  		 	   		  
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