Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 02:29 PM 12/7/2008, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
But your description confused me somewhat, regarding what's the
assembly and what's the electoral college.
The electoral college is simply a term for the collection of electors,
who are public voters. It's similar to the U.S. electoral college, but
these electors are chosen by voters directly, without contest. I presme
that they would be required to register, they might get a number to be
used by voters to specify them, there might e a pamphlet published with
a list of registered "candidates," we might as well say "electors"
because we may assume that they will all get at least one vote, should
they vote for themselves.
In some systems there may be a minimum number of votes to actually
qualify as an elector, but that is under "difficult conditions," I won't
consider it here.
Let me see if I got this right. If you were to elect a President using
Asset (I know, not a good way to use the method, but I'm trying to keep
it simple), it would go like this:
- You vote for whoever you think would be a good elector.
- Electors gather and deliberative body rules are used with a threshold
(to keep scaling problems from going out of hand).
- When there's a majority, the President's elected. Otherwise the
process continues.
Something like that? Or is it
- You vote for whoever you think would be a good elector.
- Electors gather and discuss.
- There's an STV vote (or some good single-winner method for President)
at the end and the winner wins.
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