[EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 236, Issue 12

[Closed Limelike Curves]

Only somewhat relatedly, I'm thinking we should start calling Graduated
Majority Judgment something like "first-to-reach-majority", "first
majority", or "first majority wins". This avoids big, complicated words
like "graduated" that might confuse people.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 11:54 PM Closed Limelike Curves <
closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think a Condorcet method would be most likely to do that (since it
> maximizes the chances that the elected candidate will have majority
> support). Majority Judgment can actually do arbitrarily badly at this--a
> candidate can win even if only one voter supports them. (It lacks the
> Archimedean property.)
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM steve bosworth <stevebosworth at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>>    1. Re: Electing Cabinets/Executive Committees – starting with MJ
>>
>> 3/9/2024
>> From: stevebosworth at hotmail.com
>>
>> What do you think of using Majority Judgment to elect the provisional
>> prime minister.
>> As a result, this winner would have received the largest number of
>> highest grades regarding their suitability for this office?  This number
>> would also be a majority of all the votes in the elected parliament. Such a
>> winner would seem to be the one most likely to be able to negotiate the
>> formation of a unified cabinet that would receive the needed majority vote
>> of confidence.
>>
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