2011/5/18 <[email protected]> > Yes, I do think the non-sequential version of RRV for sufficiently large > numbers of winners (with repeated wins allowed) is equivalent to the > Ultimate Lottery. > > The Ultimate Lottery is the lottery that maximizes the product of ballot > expectations, or equivalently the one that maximizes the sum of the logs of > the ballot expectations. > > The non-sequential version of RRV basically picks the subset of candidates > that maximizes the sum (over the ballots) of the logs of the sums (plus > epsilon to avoid the log of zero)) of the ballot ratings of the candidates > in the subset. > > Wait a minute.... so under non-sequential RRV, there is no "leftover Hare quota" of unrepresented voters? If 99 voters vote A100 B99 and one voter votes C100, then C will be in the 2-member parliament? That seems broken.
JQ
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