Bees use range voting as their voting method. The CRV web page on that is http://rangevoting.org/ApisMExec.html and I wrote a paper #96 at http://www.math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html
This is a pretty fun read too (but I'm biased) Warren D. Smith http://rangevoting.org PS. Incidentally, the world's tiniest democrats may be in trouble; bees are dying of an unknown malady called "Colony Collapse Disorder." This could cause massive agricultural problems. Quite a lot of crops won't produce without bees. A bizzarre (?) speculation is that cell phones are the problem. http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070315215055data_trunc_sys.shtml ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
