I recently read something about elections in Venice. I think it was in this PDF file, which I found when I wasd looking for information on Ram�n Llull (or Lull) who invented Condorcet voting in the 13th century. Voting in Medieval Universities and Religious Orders http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/mclean/Voting%20in%20Medieval%20Universities%20an d%20Religious%20Orders.pdf
There is a reference in the paper to this: Lines, M. 1986. Approval voting and strategy analysis: A Venetian example. Theory and Decision 20:155---72. And the text mentions "n-dimensional issue space". I think you're right about the meaning. NOTA is something I don't understand. Who will do the work if nobody is elected? Where do we get new and better candidates from? I associate NOTA with elections in Russia, where it paralysed the work of the Soviets after the fall of communism. I'm sorry if you get two postings about this. I sent one earlier from a computer I didn't subscribe to this list from and it hasn't shown up yet. Olli Salmi At 03:00 +0300 29.4.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a question that has been bugging me, and now that I'm not a >candidate I can indulge myself. > >I read a paper by Marji Lines (cited by Brams) dealing with the Venetian >Republic's use of AV. If I didn't misunderstand, the Venetian Republic >used AV but required that the winner get 66%. I later read in another >paper about a "rule of 64%". In essence it said that single winner would >be assured with no cycles in something called an "n-dimensional issue >space" as n approached infinity at just under 64%. Is an "n-dimensional >issue space" just a recondite way of saying n choices? And, if it does >mean that, was the Venetian system "perfect" in the sense that it avoided >cycles? > >This suggests replacing the idea of None of the Above (NOTA) with the >Venetian system. NOTA is a veto such that if it gets a majority, all >candidates are rejected and a new election with different candidates is >held. With the Venetian system, set it up so that a failure of any >candidate to get at least 66% means that all candidates are rejected and a >new election with new candidates must be held. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
