I'm sorry, but aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh.<div><br></div><div>I think that people on this list are smart, but this is pathetic. I don't mean to be hard on Dave in particular. But why is it impossible to get any two of us to agree on anything? I want to make a list of systems which are</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Commonly agreed to be better than approval.</div><div>2. Commonly agreed to be simple for an average voter to feel that they understand what's going on.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not asking each person who responds to choose the best or simplest system according to them. I'm asking everyone to vote in <a href="http://betterpolls.com/do/1425">the poll</a> and approve (rate higher than 0) all systems which meet those two very low bars. Hopefully, the result will be a consensus. It will almost certainly not be the two best, simplest systems by any individual's personal reckoning.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As to the specific comments:</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/8 Dave Ketchum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davek@clarityconnect.com">davek@clarityconnect.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">What I see:<div>. Condorcet - without mixing in Approval.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You need some cycle-breaker. Implicit approval is the only order-N tiebreaker I know; fundamentally simpler than any order-Nē tiebreaker like minimax. You don't have to call it approval if you don't like the name.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>. SODA - for trying, but seems too complex.</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I disagree, but I'm biased. I feel that "approve any number of candidates or let your favorite candidate do it for you; most approvals wins" is easy to understand. But I can understand if people disagree, so I'm not criticizing this logic.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>. Reject Approval - too weak to compete.</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Worse than plurality????????</div><div><br></div><div>JQ</div></div></div>