On May 3, 2008, at 19:08 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One possible solution to the clone issue is to scale the number of
candidates to first choice vote.
One option for that would be to allow people cast a nominating vote
as well as the ranking. The total number of nominee votes would
become the quota for each candidate. If a reasonable number of
people (5%) recognised C as a compromise, then he would win.
Yes, use of the first positions and nominations are good approaches
to eliminate the clone problems in the STV based method (to make it
more applicable to typical real life elections (not necessarily for
the challenge of Jobst)). One approach would be to count all the
candidates that are ranked above the planned winner and share the
support of the voter between all of them.
Juho
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