Simmons, Forest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the purposes of this message, a lottery is a stack of papers of standard > copier size (8.5 inch by 11 inch) such that each paper has the name of exactly > one candidate typed on it. > > This stack of papers is a lottery in the sense that a sheet of paper can be > drawn at random from the stack to determine the election winner. > > Democratic Lottery Enhancement (DLE). > > 1. Each voter is issued two copies of the initial lottery, i.e. the lottery > that is considered to be in need of democratic enhancement. > > 2. Each voter selects exactly half of the papers for discard, and then returns > the other half of the papers. > > 3. The returned papers are collated or merged to form a new, democraticaly > enhanced lottery.
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