P2 was a rule that seemed a bit weak. It said things like: When the candidates are {A,B,C,D,E}, then the set of winners is unaltered by rewriting this paper...
P4, an equation imposing a type of equal suffrage on a preferential method receiving STV-style papers, is strengthened. The "#" "cardinal number of" function...
Date = 8 Mar 2002 I check out the P2 and see if it can be altered. REDLOG was used against IFPP (and AV, see below) and I conclude that the old P2 is as good...
An example showing that the Alternative Vote will act against 24.998125% of an electorate if they were the last to arrive and then cast AV ballot papers that...
Rather than show IFPP differs from STV, here a check is done to see if it disagrees with the "shouldn't count papers twice when transferring" idea that was STV...
Once P4 is checked then it could be used in software that checks STV. Software to add dots. The last P4 formulae had a wrong term which summed the absolute...
This is partly on letting voters use a cluster of votes, all of which are negative whilst still complying with the [one man one vote] idea of keeping papers...
The equations of a new parametric preferential voting method that is truncation resistant and that complies with P2, are presented. Also the strengthening of...
I used the P4 definition that is at http://www.ijs.co.nz/ifpp.htm and got REDLOG to calculate the corruption of different methods. In 1 winner methods, the...
I tested the Alternative Vote to see if it was corrupt for 3 candidate elections. In the recent messages the Alternative Vote failed the P4 equal suffrage...
I coded up two 1 winner 3 candidate Borda methods and I tested them and the result that the REDLOG testing algorithms found was that Borda was corrupt. In the...
More on why candidates running to be a mayor should regard it as a fundamental rule of thumb that in an Alternative Vote election, more than extra 37.5% extra...
I must have lots of messages and keep them short, confesses the person I named Bathycles Zero. ... Mr Mike Ossipoff misspelt his name 79 times between 13...
Date: 19-Apr-2002 Solve the 1 winner 4 candidate preferential voting problem using IFPP axioms (and doing any fixing of the axioms them as needed). This was...
... Indeed there are 4 lobes. Also there are 2 types of lobes: * the 3 through the faces (A)-(B)-(C), (A)-(B)-(D), (A)-(C)-(D); * the lobe that is opposite to...
An obvious question is: do the boundaries between B,C,D that are fully expressing the proportional but-up, contain and tilt at the FPTP (b=c)(..) or (b=d)(..)...
Due to a dynamite in the political pool discovery of Mr Brian Wichmann in which it was found that over 50% of the winners in a STV could be the normal figure...
For this next collection of papers, the solution can be nicely plotted in a tetrahedron (using using custom simple software): A AB AC AD B BA BC BD C D The...
Date: 21 June 2002. The end stage of the derivation of the IFPP solution to the 6 paper problem was quite algebraic and visualising what happened almost can't...
Here are simpler versions of these equations that carve up the region where the proportionality drop-in is done for the 1 winner 4 candidate 6 paper problem...
I reply to some weak comments of Mr Moore. An extraordinary amount of ignoring of what I write is being done by Mr Moore. So far Mr Moore has not let slip out,...
... Mr Moore has possibly slid the meaning of the word "election" from that of being consistent with a single mathematical point in some space defined as it...
Dear Craig, ... There is no reason to believe that I "had to quit the Election Methods List". Markus Schulze P.S.: In the mentioned paper (Markus Schulze, "On...
... That simple quantifier logic equation can be evaluated in the REDUCE that is accessible through telnet. REDLOG and REDUCE can be accessed through telnet: ...
Could design an STV method that has a design like this: when it processes a paper like (A B C D E F), it could somehow rewrite that ballot paper as these 2...
A candidate can win and only just win, if it has 1/6th of the vote in a 1 winner 4 candidate election. That is true for the IFPP and the Alternative Vote. It...
This message is on the outlook in STV research ... Method redesigners can redesign the method and then STV can outwit its variant-creating attendants: to get...
New Zealand councils are not going to introduce STV, but instead they will leave it up to optional referenda. I was told that at this time, only 6 New Zealand...
