[EM] Proposed bullet-voting prohibition criterion

[Richard Fobes]

On 1/30/2013 2:21 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
> ...
> For instance, the LNHe failure of such traditional unimproved
> Condorcet (TUC) methods, such as Beatpath, Ranked-Pairs, etc. is
> admitted by most to be a disadvantage.

To anyone here who is isn't already aware, Michael Ossipoff makes 
statements about what other participants here believe, yet frequently 
those statements do not reflect what participants here actually believe.

To repeat what has been said here many times, different election-method 
experts have different opinions about which criterion failures 
("disadvantages") are more important than other criterion failures.

In other words, Michael's opinions about which criteria are more 
important than others does not reflect the group's opinions.

As a more advanced clarification, research has not yet been done to 
identify _how_ _often_ each method fails each criterion.  Those 
calculations are very difficult to figure out how to do (in a meaningful 
way).  After that research has been done, it may turn out that a method 
fails a "significant" criterion relatively rarely (i.e. in cases that 
seldom occur).  This means that criteria failures may not be as simple 
as the fail-or-not-fail checklist approach implies.

Richard Fobes