On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:44:48PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Proposal -- patch the constitution as follows:
> ! A.6. Smith/Condorcet Vote Counting
>
> ! 2. A square "initial totals table" is constructed, recording the
> ! ballot totals: the number in the table at row j, column k indicates
> ! the number of ballots which prefer ballot option j to ballot
> ! option k.
...etc.
So, uh, what happened to:
> Personally, I worry about any kind of wholesale change in the language
> of the constitution. Yeah, if you change major chunks of the document
> then current ambiguities would go away. But how do we know whether we're
> introducing new ones?
?
What you describe looks something like one of the Minmax variants or
the Tideman method described at:
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/harrow/124/methods.html
It doesn't use the Smith criterion directly. It's not particularly obvious
that it even satisfies the Smith criterion, afaict.
Cheers,
aj
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