[email protected] wrote:
Kristopfer.
Look at it this way, the process of amalgamating the factions is a
low pass filter that gets rid of some fo the noise. So why not
consider the resulting ballots as the "true" ballots, and the
associated weights tell how many of them there are of each kinsd.
STV can be done with these new true ballots, Droop quotas and all.
Sure, but these reformulated criteria are less useful than the ordinary
criteria. For instance, the Droop proportionality criterion means that
voters don't have to coordinate the ordering of their preferred set
(except regarding vote management). In the case of an absolutely
preferred candidate like X, if your low-pass filter is in place, the
voters now have to remember to not rank X top, which weakens the
guarantee given by the DPC.
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