<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:45 , <<a href="mailto:mrouse1@mrouse.com">mrouse1@mrouse.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:mrouse1@mrouse.com">mrouse1@mrouse.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><p><a href="mailto:juho4880@yahoo.co.uk">juho4880@yahoo.co.uk</a>:</p></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;">>>Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two other candidates (Y and Z).<br>>>I find the proposed method interesting since it seems to aim at electing good winners (using a function minimizes the problems caused to the voters, from one point of view).<br><br><p>I'd be happy to try. Do you have an example election for me to play with? I'm assuming you mean where I said</p><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p><em>3. If there is no Condorcet winner, find the shortest distance (sum of individual ranges) necessary to produce a Condorcet winner.</em></p></div></blockquote><div>Sorry for some delay in replying. Here's one quick example.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>1: A=10 B=2 C=1 D=0</div><div></div><div>1: A=10 C=7 B=6 D=0</div><div></div><div>1: B=10 C=6 A=5 D=0</div><div></div><div>3: C=10 D=5 A=1 B=0</div><div><div><div>3: D=10 B=4 A=3 C=0</div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div>C is now beaten by both A and B, and C has to win them both in order to become a Condorcet winner. What is the "shortest distance (sum of individual ranges)" for C in this example and how do you count it?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Juho</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>