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

[Michael Garman]

Don’t get ahead of yourself! :p

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 5:53 AM Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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