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

[Michael Ossipoff]

I should emphasize that equal ranking & truncation are allowed, as is
traditional for Schulze, & in EM preference.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 12:52 Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 12:05 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at t-online.de>
> wrote:
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>> On 2024-04-10 20:56, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 02:54 Kristofer Munsterhjelm
>> > <km_elmet at t-online.de <mailto:km_elmet at t-online.de>> wrote:
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>> >>    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.
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>> >>    In short, let's keep it simple!
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>> > Oh we wouldn’t want to complicate it by naming a count-method for
>> > counting it.
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>> Given that I said "voting", not "naming", and given that we've both
>> already named some voting methods that could be used, what is your point?
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> I offered Schulze as a suggestion, an optional default. After a few (3, by
> my count) people expressed preference for it, I asked if people wanted to
> democratically choose a different choice-method.
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> There was no response, indicating that they were satisfied with the
> optional default suggestion.
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> That’s fine with me, because, as I said, Schulze has (it seems to me from
> what I’ve heard) has long been the favorite Condorcet method among
> Condorcetists, including at EM, at least in past years.
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> It’s because of so many different nominations, that I wanted to clearly
> suggest a democratic choice…if people wanted one.
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> Acceptance of the offered optional default is a good reason to not make a
> democratic choice.
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> Sure, there’s nothing wrong with that. No objection from me.
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> I’m sorry if I misunderstood or misinterpreted you.
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>> -km
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