I have just uploaded a new derivation of the 1 winner 3 candidate IFPP formula. This method seems to be the best 1 winner 3 candidate method receiving STV...
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Nov 11, 2000 2:00 pm
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I got a private message from Joe Otten which made again a point I'd seen at the list. I have been posting (what I call) 'alteration examples' that make ...
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Dec 3, 2000 12:15 am
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One hundred and thirty nine half-flat terms that could be in any 4 candidate preferential voting formula stating that A wins, are listed below. Assumptions: ...
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Dec 5, 2000 4:29 pm
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Update It seems like not much is happening at this list. I note now that I have been writing software in Ada 95 to find non-monotonic regions in a truncation...
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Dec 12, 2000 6:39 am
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This could be the example with the smallest number of papers that demonstrates that the Alternative Vote is fails P1. This example has 17 papers. ... ...
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Dec 20, 2000 8:27 pm
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... simple...
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Dec 25, 2000 10:23 pm
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The treatment of each case is complete. _________________________________________________________________________ To: instantrunoff-freewheeling@egroups.com ...
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Dec 25, 2000 10:40 pm
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Here is an 1 winner algorithm for calculating a winner. Does anybody want to make the algorithm better?. List: Election-Methods-List Subject: Re: [EM] (P1)...
Craig Carey
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Jan 1, 2001 7:03 am
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This message corrects errors in another I sent. I reject a method that has inside it, a generalised Borda method that finds out which candidate to next...
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Jan 1, 2001 7:29 am
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Hi The simplex coordinate system I have been using is named barycentric. I have somewhat stopped progressing the mathematics and I am more interested in...
Craig Carey
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Jan 14, 2001 9:04 pm
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At 15.01.01 10:03 +1300 Monday, Craig Carey wrote: ... The dimensionality of the preferential voting method shape may be able to be reduced using some...
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Jan 16, 2001 4:39 pm
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... a ... That last comment (in the "[..]") doesn't apply to "(2)", "Truncation resistance", OR, only A's win-lose status may be inquired into, in (say) the 64...
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Jan 16, 2001 8:26 pm
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... I got the wording wrong. The idea of paper remarking present in monotonicity is similar and harder to satisfy. AV might pass that rule for all numbers of...
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Jan 16, 2001 8:56 pm
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1* inserting preferences into a FPTP paper can not increase its power. [Limitation of Powers] 2* the method returns the right number of winners. 3* my P2...
Craig Carey
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Jan 21, 2001 10:25 pm
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... Can you define this more clearly? What do you mean by power of a paper? Suppose a voter votes for A, and A doesn't win. This paper arguably has no power....
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Jan 21, 2001 11:20 pm
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Tilting flats bounding a win region in the AV1 method to improve it. The AV1 method is better than the Alternative Vote, I presume. It is similar except that...
Craig Carey
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Feb 6, 2001 4:33 pm
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... ... ... =================================================== A new method named AV2 is defined, and by the bottom of the document it is found to be not...
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Feb 7, 2001 8:39 am
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Mr S.T. suggested a new method appear. Since devising a new method could be very easy, I am not arguing against that. I gave suggestions on what should win a...
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Feb 7, 2001 8:42 am
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... Maybe not. Parameterize the tilt and name the method AV2P. V = A a B b CA ca CB cb CDA cda CDB cdb DA da DB db DCA dca DCB dcb ...
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Feb 7, 2001 5:39 pm
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This is an exact copy of a message I just e-mailed to the instantrunoff-freewheeling list hosted with Yahoo Egroups. Contrary to what I said in a previous...
Craig Carey
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Feb 10, 2001 6:18 am
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... Theoretically attractive, but in practise the colour/states on each side of the cuts are not known at the time the tie needs to be resolved. They _could_...
Joe Otten
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Feb 11, 2001 1:09 am
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At 10-02-01 06:11 P +0000 Saturday, Joe Otten wrote: ... If there is a tie and 2 cases, and one of those cases has no ties and the other has 2 cases, then...
Craig Carey
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Feb 11, 2001 6:56 am
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In this message, I note that simplifying the expressions using d<c<b<a, can also make the new formulation very very much harder to solve. That was another...
Craig Carey
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Feb 12, 2001 5:43 am
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I constructed unintentionally an example that is not of the right type to prove that W2 is wrong in letting the (AB) papers have too much power to promote A...
Craig Carey
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Feb 16, 2001 12:41 pm
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P4 (limiting powers of papers on adding preference) At 17-02-01 01:36 +1300 Saturday, Craig Carey wrote: ... ... Weight | Pref. lists a | AB + A* b | B*...
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Feb 19, 2001 7:15 am
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The STV method has a serious problem with its transfer values in that they are too small. My argument showing that the transfer values can be a lot bigger than...
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Feb 21, 2001 1:52 pm
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... ... Renames Winners as W2. Z = (All V=(a0,ab,ac...))(All R)( [(0<R<=ab) and {B,C}=W2(V)] implies [(Exists xa,xb,xc)(0<=xa,xb,xc)(R=xa+xb+xc) and ...
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Feb 25, 2001 3:19 am
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The strengthened definition of a 'limitation of powers of papers' rule for 3 candidates passed IFPP and it failed the Alternative Vote. I didn't test STV: it...
Craig Carey
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Mar 5, 2001 6:46 am
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Intro: The Alternative Vote will apply a weight of +2.0 to voter's votes. This gives some calculations showing that. The rule limiting the power of papers on...
Craig Carey
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Apr 9, 2001 10:58 am
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What do subscribers think on having the e-mail addresses of members visible to members ?. The public could view the names if they joined and unjoined. If any...
