[EM] XA

[Forest Simmons]

Good suggestions for public names; I prefer Capped Approval to Qualified
Approval, since the word "qualify" is a loaded word in the context of
elections.  Remember when HRC and Bernie Sanders were saying that their
opponents were not qualified for the presidency?

I'm sure that XA (or CA) satisfies mono-add-plump, since a plump ballot for
X cannot reduce the XA score for X, nor can it improve the XA score of any
other candidate.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Monkey Puzzle <araucaria.araucana at gmail.com
> wrote:

> If I may suggest another name for XA, you could call it Capped Approval,
> for the following reason.
>
> A voter *caps* the highest rate at which they are willing to approve
> candidate X.  By rating the candidate at R%, they express that they are
> willing to contribute a vote to X *only *if less than R% of the
> electorate is willing to support X at a rate greater than R.  So that
> candidates rating, if it includes the R-voter's ballot, is capped at R.
>
> If there are greater than R% of voters who support X at a rate greater
> than R%, the R-voter's ballot contributes nothing.
>
> As an alternative, you could call it Qualified Approval.  QA has the
> alternate interpretation of Quality Assurance.
>
> I would be very happy with a method of this type if it could be shown to
> satisfy at least a weak form of Participation, and Independence from
> Irrelevant Alternatives.
>
>  Frango ut patefaciam -- I break so that I may reveal
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Andy Jennings <elections at jenningsstory.com
> > wrote:
>
>> In this graphical framework, you can also think of XA as finding the
>> largest square that fits between the distribution function and the x axis.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Forest Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For each candidate, you indicate on your XA ballot what you consider to
>>> be an appropriate rating of merit or support on a scale of zero to 100
>>> percent
>>>
>>> In the XA count, your ballot gives full approval to the candidates that
>>> you consider under-rated by the rest of the voters, and no approval to the
>>> candidates that you consider over-rated by the rest of the voters.
>>>
>>> The candidate with the highest (average or total) approval in the XA
>>> count is elected.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for improvement?
>>>
>>>
>> Sounds like a good explanation to me.
>>
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