<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I like it!</div><div><br></div><div>It reminds me of dyadic approval.</div><div><br></div><div>Notice that the last step (otherwise, elect the approval winner) can be restated as "otherwise, flatten all of the remaining rankings except for the approval cutoff itself, and elect the resulting ballot CW."</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not suggesting that it be defined that way, only to note the natural consistency of the last step with the over all plan of flattening more and more rankings at each step in search of a ballot CW.</div><div><br></div><div>It also reminds me of another method that we briefly explored in which every ballot rank mark can be given a different strength as in</div><div><br></div><div>X>Y>>A>>>>>B>>>C>V>>>>W</div><div><br></div><div>It could be called "ranked ranks." Or using high resolution score ballots, the number of chevrons in the ranking symbols would be proportional to the score differences of adjacently rnked candidates.</div><div><br></div><div>Gradually flatten ranking symbols until there is a ballot CW based on the remaining unflattened ranking symbols.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:39 PM <<a href="mailto:election-methods-request@lists.electorama.com">election-methods-request@lists.electorama.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Election-Methods mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. What are some simple methods that accomplish the following<br>
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 15:58:28 +0930<br>
From: "C.Benham" <<a href="mailto:cbenham@adam.com.au" target="_blank">cbenham@adam.com.au</a>><br>
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Kevin,<br>
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As something fairly simple I think I like this version of your "Idea 1":<br>
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1. If there is a CW using all rankings, elect the CW.<br>
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2. Otherwise flatten/discard all disapproved rankings.<br>
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3. If there is a "CW" based on the remaining rankings (i.e. the rankings <br>
among approved plus approved over not approved)<br>
then elect that candidate.<br>
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4. Otherwise elect the most approved candidate.<br>
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That strikes me as something not too hard to explain or sell.<br>
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Chris Benham<br>
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