<div dir="ltr">See my post from a couple of weeks ago. I propose using a MJ-like seed ranking to initialize and generate the marginal differences for a Smith-compliant margin sort method.<br><br><a href="http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2024-February/005386.html">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2024-February/005386.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>While I'd like to use MJ instead of median rating score, I don't see an obvious way to get a score sum in MJ, and in any case, the extra handling of MJ is obviated by the margin sort.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.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"><div dir="ltr">Only somewhat relatedly, I'm thinking we should start calling Graduated Majority Judgment something like "first-to-reach-majority", "first majority", or "first majority wins". This avoids big, complicated words like "graduated" that might confuse people.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 11:54 PM Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com" target="_blank">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.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"><div dir="auto">I think a Condorcet method would be most likely to do that (since it maximizes the chances that the elected candidate will have majority support). Majority Judgment can actually do arbitrarily badly at this--a candidate can win even if only one voter supports them. (It lacks the Archimedean property.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 12:52 PM steve bosworth <<a href="mailto:stevebosworth@hotmail.com" target="_blank">stevebosworth@hotmail.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">
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