Talk:Ranked Robin: Difference between revisions

== Improvement to Ranked Robin method ==

On the Election-Methods discussion forum I'm suggesting that the Borda count tie breaker be replaced with "pairwise support counts" so that the pairwise matrix does not need to be presented -- to voters or to media reporters or to people who take the time to learn how the counting is done. This improvement will yield results that will be similar to the current version, but with less vulnerability to tactical voting.

The resulting improved Ranked Robin method can be described as follows:

"The [improved] Ranked Robin method elects the candidate who has the most number of one-on-one wins against every other candidate. [or whichever Copeland variation is desired] If more than one candidate has the same largest number, the method elects from those tied candidates the candidate with the highest pairwise support count. The pairwise support count for each of the tied candidates is the sum, across all the ballots, of the number of tied candidates who are ranked lower than the candidate whose pairwise support count is being counted."

The words "tied candidate" are important because the pairwise support count should not involve candidates who have already been eliminated using the Copeland method.

Several other election-method experts have given their responses to this improved method. Their responses can be accessed on these two pages:

http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2022-March/thread.html (bottom of page)

http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2022-April/thread.html (top of page)

The full suggestion is at the following location:

http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2022-March/003709.html

The responses can be accessed using the "Next message (by thread): [EM] Improvement to Ranked Robin method" link.

This improvement to the Ranked Robin method will dramatically simplify the explanation of the method, which is expressed as the goal behind creating this method.

[[User:VoteFair|VoteFair]] ([[User talk:VoteFair|talk]]) 17:44, 5 April 2022 (UTC)