<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4435"><span>Well, it doesn't satisfy LIIA.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4715"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4714">A>B, B>C, A>D, B>D, C>A, D>C</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4713"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4712">The ranking is B>C>A>D.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4794"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4712">Remove D and the ranking becomes A>B>C.</span><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4491"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4486" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4485"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4484"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4796"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4795" size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, October 8, 2017 7:31 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4483"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4482">On 10/07/2017 10:28 PM, Ross Hyman wrote:<br clear="none">> Hi Kristofer,<br clear="none">> I found Warren Smith's votedesc.pdf document on M. Schulze's site:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://m-schulze.9mail.de/votedesc.pdf" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1507468608977_4487">http://m-schulze.9mail.de/votedesc.pdf</a><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> This is a great document. I think it should be on the Election Methods<br clear="none">> website, especially since most of the other links to election method<br clear="none">> descriptions are broken.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The variation I am proposing to Warren's Maxtree method is to constrain<br clear="none">> the form of the spanning tree to a directed chain (or whatever the<br clear="none">> official name is) A>B>C>D.... and then maximize the minimum link. I<br clear="none">> haven't had time to think about it too much but I am hoping the method<br clear="none">> will satisfy local independence of irrelevant alternatives.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> What's up with the election methods list? I have not seen my posting or<br clear="none">> your response to it on the archive, which is what I read. I don't get<br clear="none">> the emails. The last posting in the archive is from Sept 28.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Best,<br clear="none">> Ross<br clear="none"><br clear="none">electorama.com has had some problems with its mailing list <br clear="none">administration lately. First the election-methods list disappeared from <br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi" target="_blank">http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi </a>some years ago, and then this.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/" target="_blank">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/ </a><br clear="none">states<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Note:The archive search index was last rebuilt at Friday, 29 Sep 2017 <br clear="none">21:39:45 PDT. Any postings after that will not be found by a search. <br clear="none">Index rebuild is usally done once every 24 hours for this list. You can <br clear="none">use a "View by date" link below to access more recent postings. "<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So it seems like some kind of scheduled program has stopped working.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Since the electorama server has had problems in the past as well, it <br clear="none">might be an idea to move it elsewhere... Same with the electorama wiki; <br clear="none">both could use some maintenance, it seems like; although I haven't <br clear="none">recently checked if the TeX problem has been fixed.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On-topic, it could be interesting to have a proof of what kind of <br clear="none">chain/DAG methods satisfy LIIA. LIIA doesn't have to imply clone <br clear="none">independence because Kemeny passes the former and fails the latter, at <div class="yqt3532319239" id="yqtfd22600"><br clear="none">least.<br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>