On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:03:28 -0700, Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I'm allergic to the use of randomness in election methods, so I > don't plan on implementing such an option. The unique appealing feature of random methods is that they're the only ones that can be completely immune to the the "Tyranny of the Majority" problem. If a particular political party consistently gets 10% of the vote, wouldn't it be nice if their candidates were elected 10% of the time? Random methods are the only ones (that I know of, at least) capable of accomplishing that for single-seat elections -- they're basically the single-seat "time-sharing" version of PR. Random methods are nothing to be concerned about, they've been used in mathematical physics and other hard-sciences for quite some time (e.g. the Monte-Carlo method). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method -Bill Clark ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
