From: dave smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I need help in determining what voting system would be best for the > following criteria: > > ~500 candidates > ~1000 voters > 1 winner > > I was going to do a form of PV, but limit the number of ranks to 3. > The problem with this is that what if there are more candidates than > voters, and the voters decided to stop paging through candidates > after the 3rd - 4th page of candidates.
Why is there so many candidates for so few voters ? Anyway, I think you need some method for proxy voting. Otherwise, nobody is going to read the entire set. Is it a computer count ? What about: Each candidate submits a list ranking lots of candidates. Each voter ranks 4 candidates. Their vote is considered to be those 4 ranks, then it is considered to be the list of each of their top 4 ranks in turn. It is then considered to be the lists of the candidates in order of the list that their first candidate submitted. So, it's Rank 1 on ballot Rank 2 on ballot Rank 3 on ballot Rank 4 on ballot List for Rank 1 on ballot List for Rank 2 on ballot List for Rank 3 on ballot List for Rank 4 on ballot List for first on List for Rank 1 on ballot List for second on List for Rank 1 on ballot .... List for last on List for Rank 1 on ballot List for first on List for Rank 2 on ballot ... and so on This should get you an effectively very long ballot. > Maybe an approval system would be better here? I don't see how that helps much. Having to approve/disapprove 500 candidates is not that much easier than ranking them. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
