On Mar 24, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Gervase Lam wrote:
IRV can be made sort of summable:
<http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/2001-September/006595.html
>
Buddha Buck replied with an IRV example that much more clearly
explained
the method:
<http://lists.electorama.com/htdig.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com/2001-September/006598.html
>
Quite neat I think.
Yes, but...what's the point? That is, what problem are you trying to
solve, exactly?
If you're in a position to compute the matrix, why not simply send the
file of ballot data? It's not as if it's going to be prohibitively
large. The 2008 US Presidential election had ~13 million votes in
California, the largest state. Ten candidates at a byte per candidate
would only be order of a 100MB for the entire state, before
compression. Heck, I've got mp3's bigger than that.
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