[EM] FBC, center squeeze, and CD

[Michael Ossipoff]

Hi Forest--

By "vote-receiving", I just wanted that to refer to the candidate who's
being considered for receiving the conditional vote.

Jameson has just demonstrated that my Conditional Approval fails FBC.

Most likely, that means that my Conditional(u) Bucklin fails FBC too.

Now, hopefully your proposal, &/or Chris's Unconditional Bucklin passes FBC.

I've just now found your posting. I hope that your method or Chris's meets
FBC.

Michael Ossipoff


On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Forest Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu> wrote:

>
>
>> Because it's so brief, let me state the conditional(u) option, for
>> Approval, and for Bucklin:
>>
>> Approval:
>>
>> If a ballot conditionally approves a candidate, then it gives an approval
>> to that candidate only if that vote-receiving candidate has more
>> unconditional approvals than does any candidate unconditionally approved
>> by
>> that ballot.
>>
>>
> I don't see the purpose of the qualifier "vote-receiving;" It seems to me
> that if a candidate has more (unconditional) approvals than some other
> candidate, then it is ipso facto "vote-receiving."
>
>
> It could also be called TopMiddleBottom.
>
> Voters mark candidates Top, Middle, or Bottom., with default Bottom.
>
> In the first round count, ballots contribute support only to their Top
> rated candidates. Then if (on some ballot) a Middle rated candidate has a
> better chance of winning (according to the first round totals) than any
> candidate that is Top rated by that ballot, then that ballot promotes that
> candidate to Top status for the purposes of the final count.
>
> In other words, the Middle mark is a fall-back or conditional approval
> mark.
>
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