[EM] New Criterion (typo at end of previous message)

[Forest Simmons]

That last A faction should have been 45 A>B instead of 41 A>B.


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Forest Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu> wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 19:19:21 +0930
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>> From: "C.Benham" <cbenham at adam.com.au>
>> To: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
>> Subject: Re: [EM] New Criterion
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>> > "for Benham, what if we count fractional (for equal rank top) as you
>> > suggest when doing the IRV eliminations, but check at each step for a
>> > pairwise beats all candidate in the usual way?"
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>> Forest,  That wouldn't be too bad.  But it seems to me that it would
>> make Pushover strategizing less risky (than not allowing above-bottom
>> equal-rankings) and since the method
>> fails FBC  I didn't see sufficient justification for the extra complexity.
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>> > "In your example below, since B beats A pairwise 31 to zero and B
>> > beats C 65 to 35, no IRV elimination step is required, so how equal
>> > rank top is counted in this example does not seem to matter."
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>> Yes, Benham has less of a Pushover vulnerability problem than IRV.   I
>> don't understand your other question.  Benham only checks for a single
>> CW. "Symmetrically completing" pairwise
>> contests can't make any difference to that.
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> True, symmetric completion wouldn't make any difference but I was
> wondering if perhaps you intended counting 20 A=C as 10 A  and 10 C.
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>> A better example of my suggested way of getting extra "pushover
>> resistance":
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>> 04: A=C  (sincere is A or A>B)
>> 41 A
>> 28 B>A
>> 27 C>B
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>> B>A 55-45,    A>C 69-27,   C>B 31-28.   Top Preferences (erf):  A43 >
>> C29 > B28
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>> B is the sincere CW (and so also the sincere Benham winner) and the
>> sincere IRV winner. Benham and IRV elect A.
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>> My suggested variant looks at the order of candidates according to their
>> TP(erf) scores and on seeing that A is higher in that order than C
>> assigns the whole value of A=C ballots to A
>> (and none of it to C) to give  A45 > B28 > C27 (purely for the purpose
>> of the IRV component and not the pairwise component in Benham) and then
>> eliminates C and elects B.
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> I'm glad that you have found a good way of allowing equal top ranking into
> IRV and Benham, because without the possibility of equal top ranking it
> would (more often) be impossible to find a semi-sincere Nash equilibrium
> that preserved the sincere CW.
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> In that regard, if the sincere preferences are (according to one of your
> suggestions)
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> 45 A>B
> 28 B>A
> 27 C>B
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> wouldn't the following ballot set be a Nash equilibrium (including
> deterrent for pushover) under both fractional and whole rules for equal top?
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> 41 A>B
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(should be 45 A>B)

> 28 B>A
> 27 C=B
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>> Chris Benham
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>> On 5/21/2014 9:12 AM, Forest Simmons wrote:
>> > Chris,
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>> > for Benham, what if we count fractional (for equal rank top) as you
>> > suggest when doing the IRV eliminations, but check at each step for a
>> > pairwise beats all candidate in the usual way?
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>> > In your example below, since B beats A pairwise 31 to zero and B beats
>> > C 65 to 35, no IRV elimination step is required, so how equal rank top
>> > is counted in this example does not seem to matter.
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>> > Or is there some reason for doing a "symmetric completion" of equal
>> > rankings for the pairwise contests as well?
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>> > Forest
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