On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
On May 24, 2011, at 6:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list for a
advice on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State Legislature. He finally settled
on CSSD beatpath. As near as I
know nothing came of it. What would we propose if we had another
opportunity like that?
It seems to me that people have rejected IRV, Bucklin, and other
methods based on ranked ballots
because they don’t want to rank the candidates.
I would propose Condorcet, with just a few clarifications:
Leave CSSD beatpath as a detail method decision to resolve later.
Reject IRV for known problems.
Those unranked are simply counted as having the bottom rank.
Write-ins permitted and counted as if actually nominated. This is a bit
of extra pain, but I like it better than demanding extra nominations
that enemies could make unacceptably difficult.
Equal ranking permitted. Those who like Approval should understand that
using a single rank lets them express their desire without considering
ranking in detail.
No restrictions as to how rank numbers compare - when considering which
of a pair has higher rank, ONLY their ranks compare as H>L, L>H, or E=-
what ranks are assigned to other candidates have no effect on this.
No restriction as to how many rank numbers a voter may use, beyond fact
that a chosen ballot design may impose a limit as to how many can be
expressed.
DYN is a simple addition for those who see value in that method.
Having conducted in the CIVS system an experiment over the past several
years as to whether people are able to deal with ranked ballots, I have
to say that voters seem to be able to deal with ranking choices. In fact
they will even rank dozens of choices. As long as the user interface is
not painful, it's not a big deal for most people. So I would choose
Condorcet in a second. Like Dave, I don't think the completion method
matters a great deal. However, write-ins are a more complicated issue
and it is still not clear to me how to handle them fairly.
-- Andrew
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