Raul Miller wrote:
It would certainly be easiest to implement, but it would make it as easy to amend the Constitution as to pass a resolution. There is some sense in making it harder to amend the governing documents.Here's some thoughts about how we might implement supermajority:[1] The simplest: discard supermajority entirely. Nothing special is required to override "important decisions". This has some elegantly simple mathematical properties but I don't know of any other argument for it.
This is underspecified. Define "winner doesn't meet supermajority.".[2] Discard the election if the winner doesn't meet supermajority. Perhaps, if the ballot has nondefault options with differing supermajority ratios, immediately hold another election using only the options with a lesser supermajority ratio. I'm leaning towards this at the moment.
Once that definition is made to my satisfaction, I like this option, or one of these two variants:
[2a] Discard the result if the CpSSD winner doesn't meet supermajority. Default option (Further Discussion) wins by default. New election to be held after appropriate discussion period.
[2b] Discard the result if the CpSSD winner doesn't meet supermajority. Hold an "instant runoff" using all the remaining options and the same ballots. Repeat until a winner is found.
I used to favor [2b], but I think I like [2a] best right now.
[3] (current draft) Only consider supermajority in terms of defeating the default option. This gets a bit confusing to think about in the context of transitive defeats. [4] (my old hobby horse) Consider supermajority in every comparison involving an option with a supermajority requirement. This gets a bit confusing to think about in the context of transitive defeats. [5] (Nov 16 and earlier drafts) Discard options which don't satisfy supermajority before considering transitive defeat. This gets a bit confusing to think about in the context of transitive defeats. Suggestion? Comments? Incoherent ramblings? [Note: I'm not going to be around much tomorrow. Maybe you'll have everything solved for me when I get back?] Thanks,
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