[EM] Express any wish for democratic choice of poll-parameters. Do-able if desired.

[Michael Ossipoff]

That’s a like & acceptance for Schulze. Can I also count it as a
top-ranking of Schulze?

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 02:56 Michael Garman <michael.garman at rankthevote.us>
wrote:

> I'm intrigued by Alternative #2. Schulze works for me.
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 11:54 AM Kristofer Munsterhjelm <
> km_elmet at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> On 2024-04-09 01:58, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
>> > When proposing this poll, I assumed that people would prefer the
>> > simplest & least elaborate poll-proposal.
>> >
>> > I wasn’t trying to be autocratic or favor my favorites when I suggested
>> > Schulze & Approval as the polling-methods. Schulze isn’t my favorite
>> > Condorcet anyway, but it’s popular.
>>
>> I don't have any particular opinion, as long as the method is Condorcet
>> and doesn't fail too many criteria. I think it's likely that the
>> cloneproof defeat-droppers will all give the same result. There might
>> even be a CW, which would solve the problem outright.
>>
>> I proposed Ext-Minmax more to reduce the chance of ties, since Schulze
>> has a higher tie rate than other methods and RP breaks ties in a
>> somewhat opaque manner. But again: the EM posts are public so anyone can
>> run whatever voting method they'd like on the ranked ballots and report
>> their results. If ties end up being a real problem, we can deal with it
>> later.
>>
>> I'm not an Approvalist myself, but having an Approval ballot be part of
>> the poll doesn't bother me either. In any case, I don't think it's
>> necessary to complicate matters by having a vote about what voting
>> method to use, or by inventing a meta-voting method.
>>
>> In short, let's keep it simple!
>>
>> -km
>>
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