Re: supermajority options

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

> >[2] Discard the election if the winner doesn't meet supermajority.
> >Perhaps, if the ballot has nondefault options with differing supermajority
> >ratios, immediately hold another election using only the options with
> >a lesser supermajority ratio.  I'm leaning towards this at the moment.
> 
> This is underspecified.  Define "winner doesn't meet supermajority.".

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:24:32AM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote:
> Once that definition is made to my satisfaction, I like this option, or 
> one of these two variants:
> 
> [2a] Discard the result if the CpSSD winner doesn't meet supermajority. 
>  Default option (Further Discussion) wins by default.  New election to 
> be held after appropriate discussion period.
> 
> [2b] Discard the result if the CpSSD winner doesn't meet supermajority. 
>  Hold an "instant runoff" using all the remaining options and the same 
> ballots.  Repeat until a winner is found.
> 
> I used to favor [2b], but I think I like [2a] best right now.

I'm thinking a version of 2b could work quite well.

What's your reason for disliking instant runoff?  [Let's assume we
only use it for cases where all options in schwartz set had a majority
requirement greater than 1:1].

Thanks,

-- 
Raul