[EM] Poll, final ballot from Richard Fobes, the VoteFair guy

Richard, the VoteFair guy electionmethods at votefair.org
Fri May 10 20:41:53 PDT 2024


Final 2024-May-10 poll ballot from Richard Fobes, the VoteFair guy:

Notation:
"..." indicates a rating gap
[??] indicates rank is approximate based on not yet fully understanding 
the method


1. RCIPE -- [simple, almost Condorcet, almost cloneproof]
2. Benham -- [IRV but stops at pairwise winner]
3. MinMax(wv) -- [best of Condorcet methods]
4. RP(wv) -- [doesn't look deep enough into pairwise preferences]
5. Woodall --  [good, Smith plus IRV]
...

<------ APPROVAL CUTOFF ------->

6. Schwartz-Woodall -- [Woodall but harder to explain]
7. Baldwin -- [Borda version of IRV, requires honesty]
8. Copeland//Borda (also called Ranked Robin) -- [simple, requires 
honest voting]
9. Black -- [Condorcet else Borda, good but tactical vulnerability]
10. Schulze -- [complex, increases other IIA failures to get zero clone 
failures]
11. Smith//Score -- [requires honesty]
...
12. Gross Loser Elimination -- [name sounds good but never saw description]
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 -- [??]
...
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]
...
20. Approval -- [great for friends, ok for primaries, tactical 
vulnerabilities]
...
21. Margins-Sorted Approval -- [??]
22. Smith//Approval (explicit) -- [complexity without significant advantage]
23. Smith//Approval (implicit) -- [cannot rank most-disliked below disliked]
...
24. Plurality -- [we are here]
...
25. Approval with manual runoff -- [two choices in "runoff" is too few!!!]

Richard Fobes


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