[EM] Most important/used election methods?
Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km_elmet at t-online.de
Thu Oct 14 13:45:29 PDT 2021
On 14.10.2021 19:22, Richard, the VoteFair guy wrote:
> On 10/13/2021 11:50 AM, Bohdan Andriyiv wrote:
>> ...
>> Is there a list that sorts election methods by popularity or importance?
>>
>> If there is none, could you please make one and enlighten me and the
>> planet Earth?
>
> Years ago we tried to enlighten the planet Earth by writing and signing
> the "Declaration of Election-Method Reform Advocates", a copy of which
> is at:
>
> http://www.votefair.org/bansinglemarkballots/index.html
>
> We do not agree on any ranking by importance, but most of us did agree
> that we support the use of the following four categories:
>
> * Approval voting
>
> * most of the Condorcet methods
>
> * Majority Judgment
>
> * Range voting (now better known as Score voting)
>
> If we were to update the list it would probably include STAR voting --
> because it's based on Score voting, yet it's better than Score voting.
>
> And I believe it would include the version of Minimax that uses winning
> votes -- even though this variation does not always elect the Condorcet
> winner.
Minmax(wv) passes the Condorcet criterion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax_Condorcet_method#Satisfied_and_failed_criteria
Are you referring to another method here?
-km
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