<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Michael,<br><br></div>I agree with your assessment of the current possibilities, and I realize that Woodall and Benham have the advantage of being based on a familiar runoff idea. It is also possible to do chain climbing on the IRV elimination order, but monotonicity and immunity to second place complaints would be sacrificed.<br>
<br></div>Immunity to second place complaints says that if you re-run the election with the (old) winner removed, the new winner will be someone beaten pairwise by the old winner. Neither Benham nor Woodall satisfies this nice property. In other words if X is the Woodall Winner (say) there might be another candidate Y that (1) becomes the Woodall winner when X is removed, and (2) is not beaten by X pairwise This may seem fishy to the Y supporters.<br>
<br></div><div>Steve Eppley's concern about all of the truncations being used up by one very bad candidate should not be a concern if the voters realize that no totally truncated candidate can win no matter how many additional truncations there are among the remaining candidates. A Pareto Dominated candidate is covered by each of its dominating candidates, but the TACC winner cannot be a covered candidate.<br>
<br></div><div>Another way to address Eppley's concern: Instead of the implicit approval order for TACC we could (without sacrifice of any nice property) use the Bucklin Order according to the equal ranking (whole) version of Bucklin. This order is determined primarily by the median rank of the candidate and secondarily by how much support it has at that rank or above.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>You probably already knew all of this, but I wanted to get it into the archives for the record. <br><br></div><div>By the way, what happened to the regular election methods archives?<br><br></div>
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