[EM] Poll, preliminary ballots

[Richard, the VoteFair guy]

Poll ballot from Richard Fobes, the VoteFair guy

Preliminary as of 2024-April-17

Notation:
"..." indicates a rating gap
[??] indicates haven't yet seen its description so rank is approximate


1. RCIPE -- [simple, almost Condorcet, almost cloneproof]
2. MinMax(wv) -- [best of Condorcet methods]
3. RP(wv) -- [doesn't look deep enough into pairwise preferences]
4. Woodall --  [good, Smith plus IRV]
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5. Schwartz-Woodall -- [Woodall but harder to explain]
6. Baldwin -- [Borda version of IRV, requires honesty]
7. Copeland//Borda (also called Ranked Robin) -- [simple, requires 
honest voting]
8. Black -- [Condorcet else Borda, good but tactical vulnerability]
9. Benham -- [same weakness as IRV]
10. Schulze -- [complex, increases other IIA failures to get zero clone 
failures]
11. Smith//Score -- [requires honesty]
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12. Gross Loser Elimination -- [??]
13. Max Strength Transitive Beatpath -- [??]
14. Margins-Sorted Minimum Losing Votes (equal-rated whole) -- [??]
15. Smith//DAC -- [complexity without significant advantage]
16. Double Defeat, Hare -- [??]
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17. IRV -- ["overvotes" ignored, lowest count not always least popular, 
correct ballot type]
18. Majority Judgement -- [clever, requires honesty, wrong ballot type]
19. STAR -- [vulnerable to nomination and voting tactics, dead-end 
ballot type]
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20. Approval -- [great for friends, ok for primaries, tactical 
vulnerabilities]
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21. Margins-Sorted Approval -- [??]
22. Smith//Approval (explicit) -- [complexity without significant advantage]
23. Smith//Approval (implicit) -- [cannot rank most-disliked below disliked]
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24. Plurality -- [we are here]
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25. Approval with manual runoff -- [two choices in "runoff" is too few!!!]