[EM] Easy fix to Alaska's ranked-choice voting

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 10.11.2022 18:07, Toby Pereira wrote:
> So do you have a nice and simple definition of this method that anyone 
> can understand?
> 
> Where do you now stand on your Quick and Clean Burial Resistant Smith 
> method? At the time, it seemed to be the best thing since sliced bread, 
> but amongst all the posts, it now it appears not to have resisted, er, 
> burial.

There have been so many voting methods proposals lately, so I think some 
kind of simulator would be needed to winnow them out. Either that or a 
lot of meticulous theoretical work so that we could classify the methods 
in groups for which VSE/strategy resistance would be known.

I have something that kind of looks like such a strategy simulator, but 
the code is incredibly ugly. It needs to be rewritten or redone, but I 
haven't had the time.

So until someone writes an extensible simulator where it's easy to chain 
together components to get e.g. Friendly Cover, QCBRS or GLE... the 
uncertainty remains.

On a bit of a side note: I don't think any Condorcet method that only 
uses the Condorcet matrix can satisfy weak immunity to burial (DMTCBR). 
I have no proof of this, but neither did my exploration (that found 
fpA-fpC) find any such method.

-km