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Richard, the VoteFair guy
Thu, Apr 18, 2024 12:30 AM

Poll ballot from Richard Fobes, the VoteFair guy

Preliminary as of 2024-April-17

Notation:
"..." indicates a rating gap
[??] indicates haven't yet seen its description so rank is approximate

  1. RCIPE -- [simple, almost Condorcet, almost cloneproof]
  2. MinMax(wv) -- [best of Condorcet methods]
  3. RP(wv) -- [doesn't look deep enough into pairwise preferences]
  4. Woodall --  [good, Smith plus IRV]
    ...
  5. Schwartz-Woodall -- [Woodall but harder to explain]
  6. Baldwin -- [Borda version of IRV, requires honesty]
  7. Copeland//Borda (also called Ranked Robin) -- [simple, requires
    honest voting]
  8. Black -- [Condorcet else Borda, good but tactical vulnerability]
  9. Benham -- [same weakness as IRV]
  10. Schulze -- [complex, increases other IIA failures to get zero clone
    failures]
  11. Smith//Score -- [requires honesty]
    ...
  12. Gross Loser Elimination -- [??]
  13. Max Strength Transitive Beatpath -- [??]
  14. Margins-Sorted Minimum Losing Votes (equal-rated whole) -- [??]
  15. Smith//DAC -- [complexity without significant advantage]
  16. Double Defeat, Hare -- [??]
    ...
  17. IRV -- ["overvotes" ignored, lowest count not always least popular,
    correct ballot type]
  18. Majority Judgement -- [clever, requires honesty, wrong ballot type]
  19. STAR -- [vulnerable to nomination and voting tactics, dead-end
    ballot type]
    ...
  20. Approval -- [great for friends, ok for primaries, tactical
    vulnerabilities]
    ...
  21. Margins-Sorted Approval -- [??]
  22. Smith//Approval (explicit) -- [complexity without significant advantage]
  23. Smith//Approval (implicit) -- [cannot rank most-disliked below disliked]
    ...
  24. Plurality -- [we are here]
    ...
  25. Approval with manual runoff -- [two choices in "runoff" is too few!!!]
Poll ballot from Richard Fobes, the VoteFair guy Preliminary as of 2024-April-17 Notation: "..." indicates a rating gap [??] indicates haven't yet seen its description so rank is approximate 1. RCIPE -- [simple, almost Condorcet, almost cloneproof] 2. MinMax(wv) -- [best of Condorcet methods] 3. RP(wv) -- [doesn't look deep enough into pairwise preferences] 4. Woodall -- [good, Smith plus IRV] ... 5. Schwartz-Woodall -- [Woodall but harder to explain] 6. Baldwin -- [Borda version of IRV, requires honesty] 7. Copeland//Borda (also called Ranked Robin) -- [simple, requires honest voting] 8. Black -- [Condorcet else Borda, good but tactical vulnerability] 9. Benham -- [same weakness as IRV] 10. Schulze -- [complex, increases other IIA failures to get zero clone failures] 11. Smith//Score -- [requires honesty] ... 12. Gross Loser Elimination -- [??] 13. Max Strength Transitive Beatpath -- [??] 14. Margins-Sorted Minimum Losing Votes (equal-rated whole) -- [??] 15. Smith//DAC -- [complexity without significant advantage] 16. Double Defeat, Hare -- [??] ... 17. IRV -- ["overvotes" ignored, lowest count not always least popular, correct ballot type] 18. Majority Judgement -- [clever, requires honesty, wrong ballot type] 19. STAR -- [vulnerable to nomination and voting tactics, dead-end ballot type] ... 20. Approval -- [great for friends, ok for primaries, tactical vulnerabilities] ... 21. Margins-Sorted Approval -- [??] 22. Smith//Approval (explicit) -- [complexity without significant advantage] 23. Smith//Approval (implicit) -- [cannot rank most-disliked below disliked] ... 24. Plurality -- [we are here] ... 25. Approval with manual runoff -- [two choices in "runoff" is too few!!!]