Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcetvoting

["Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@cs.nuim.ie>]

> > ... simulations seem to show that they are much less harmful
> > ... than analogous circumstances with Condorcet.
>
> Usually the best statistics are those which were faked by yourself,
> so please point us to some scientific paper(s) which support(s) your
> claim.

The claim was based on simulations described at

  http://rangevoting.org/vsi.html

A more academic-style presentation of similar results is available at

  http://math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/rangevote.pdf

The code used is also made available, so you can re-run the
simulations, or modify them to fix any perceived deficiencies.
--
Barak A. Pearlmutter
 Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/