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 -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Thanks to all avid pokers out there'' -- linux.conf.au, 17-20 January 2001
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