[EM] Throwing my hat into the ring, possibly to get trampled

[Jameson Quinn]

Seems to be a strange hybrid of ranked Bucklin and IRV-like elimination. I
would need more time to process it fully, but at first blush, I don't think
your "proof" that it's monotonic holds up. Raising a candidate means
lowering some other candidate; eliminating that other candidate can change
other ballots; and that could lead to the raised candidate being
eliminated. Haven't come up with an example, but you certainly seem to have
left this possibility out of your proof. I further suspect that if
monotonicity breaks down, then IIA almost certainly will as well.

In general, your method is a ranked one, so it's unproblematically subject
to Arrow's limitations. If it meets IIA, which other Arrow criterion does
it fail?

Jameson

ps. when it comes to methods with incredibly awesome
properties<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Homunq>that are too new
to even merit a wikipedia page... why not stay with SODA
voting<http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/SODA_voting_(Simple_Optionally-Delegated_Approval)>:)



2012/6/8 Nicholas Buckner <nlborlcl at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> I am Nicholas Buckner. I developed an alternative method that takes
> the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives path over the Condorcet
> path. It handles single-winner elections and multiple-winner
> elections. I believe it satisfies a great number of criterions,
> including difficult ones like Clone Independence and Participation.
>
> I include C++ source code of a program that reads csv files so that
> many can easily test my method. First column for votes, second column
> for first preferences, third column for second preferences, and so on.
> 0 for no-preference, 1 for Candidate 1, 2 for Candidate 2, and so on.
> Reads a file called A.csv in the same directory as the compiled
> program.
>
> Here is a link to the 11-page proposal (7 pages are source code):
> https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/169095
> The pdf version leaves the data tables intact the most.
>
> Any help verifying it would be appreciated,
> Nicholas Buckner
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