I was also thinking of another approval with poll method.
1) Assume all candidates have equal chance of winning(this is 'poll' 1).
2) Set threshold to expected utility of election for each voter
3) Run the poll with only 50 voters
4) Assume all candidates have a chance of winning
Zoomed out a factor of ten, some odd results show up far from the
grouping of candidates:
http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/zoomout/
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I slightly modified the ApprovalNoInfo code and re-ran.
Basically, I added:
if ( m2 == m random()%2 == 0 )
{
winner=second_place;
}
This just randomly swaps the winner with the 2nd place candidate
if they tie rather then consistantly going one way. This gives
a more balanced
The images on your site are compelling and interesting.
http://www.geocities.com/raphfrk/
I've added random tiebreaking to ApprovalNoInfo in my own code and I'm
re-running those images. With a little luck my computer will run them by
morning.
I like how it shows regions where the outcome
