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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">Well I nominate Kristofer to administer the poll. Michael, if you are plonking people or vise versa, it might not be as good for you to administer the poll.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There seems to be a whole shitload of alternatives. But a good method can handle that.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Powered by Cricket Wireless</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Kristofer Munsterhjelm<km_elmet@t-online.de></km_elmet@t-online.de></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Sat, Apr 6, 2024 12:40</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>robert bristow-johnson;Toby Pereira;Filip Ejlak;Michael Ossipoff;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>EM;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [EM] Poll on voting-systems, to inform voters in upc
oming enactment-elections</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><pre>On <a href="tel:2024-04-06 16">2024-04-06 16</a>:33, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> Kristofer, what method should be used to poll on the preference on methods?
For the ranked ballots, I'd just use one of the defeat-droppers. I
imagine that they would all lead to the same result up to ties. I like
Ext-Minmax[1] myself because it has a very low tie rate, but again, I
think anything would do.
If there's a cycle, I'd report the Smith set.
Rob LeGrand's ranked-ballot voting calculator, listed at
<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Online_poll,">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Online_poll,</a> can both do Minmax and identify
the Smith set. It can't do Ext-Minmax, but it should be relatively easy
to verify the order by eyeballing the Condorcet matrix if that becomes
an issue.
As I understood it, Mike also wanted to do an Approval poll by asking us
to submit Approval ballots alongside the ranked ones. For these, the
method would be Approval itself. I probably wouldn't ask for an Approval
poll if I were running it, but it doesn't bother me if one's included
either.
-km
[1] Ext-Minmax is just: the winner is the candidate with the least worst
pairwise defeat. Break remaining ties by second worst defeats, third
worst defeats, etc.
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