<div dir="auto">For us old lazy guys who sometimes need help seeing the obvious ... how about a couple of pertinent examples with their most pertinent features high lighted?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 8:29 PM C.Benham <<a href="mailto:cbenham@adam.com.au">cbenham@adam.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This idea is inspired by our recent and ongoing "war on Burial".<br>
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Approval-enhanced IRV<br>
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*Voters strictly rank from the top however many candidates they choose <br>
and have the option of<br>
marking their highest-ranked approved candidate. Default approval is to <br>
only the candidate ranked<br>
above all others.<br>
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Find the winner of the pairwise comparison between the IRV winner and <br>
the candidate X with the most<br>
approval opposition to the IRV winner.<br>
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The IRV winner is elected if it wins (or say if ties) that pairwise <br>
comparison.<br>
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If X wins it, then do the whole thing again as if all ballots truncate <br>
just below X.<br>
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If that doesn't produce a new winner, then elect X.<br>
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If it does, then elect the original IRV winner.*<br>
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This should hang on to LNHelp while meeting modified versions of LNHarm <br>
and Minimal Defense.<br>
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Here is a maybe-good-enough-most-of-the-time shorter prettier variation:<br>
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*Voters strictly rank from the top however many candidates they choose <br>
and have the option of<br>
marking their highest-ranked approved candidate. Default approval is to <br>
only the candidate ranked<br>
above all others.<br>
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If the IRV winner is also the most approved candidate then it is elected.<br>
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Otherwise elect the winner of the pairwise comparison between the IRV <br>
winner and the candidate<br>
with the most approval opposition to the IRV winner.*<br>
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Not a Condorcet method and probably nothing like a practical proposal.<br>
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Chris Benham<br>
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