Jameson Quinn wrote: > > Suggestions: >>>> - When a candidate is elected and you need to discard ballots, you could >>>> specify a more detailed preference order: >>>> 1. Ballots which delegated to that candidate >>>> 2. Ballots which bullet voted that candidate and didn't delegate >>>> 3. Ballots which approved two candidates >>>> 4. Ballots which approved three candidates >>>> 5. Ballots which approved four candidates >>>> 6. And so on. >>>> This eliminates ballots first which approve fewer candidates. You may >>>> still have to select randomly within these tiers, but it gives an incentive >>>> for people to approve more candidates, which helps the method work better. >>>> Right? >>>> >>> >>> Well, up to a point. The problem would be if people approved a "no-hope" >>> candidate, just to puff up the number of approvals on their ballot. This is >>> a form of "Woodall free riding", and it could lead to DH3-type pathologies >>> in the worst case. I'd rather not go there. >>> >> >> Good point. Although if there do happen to be any voters who bullet voted >> for that candidate but didn't delegate to him, then you should definitely >> eliminate those first (even before the delegated ones, I think). Once that >> candidate is elected, ballots which don't approve any other candidates are >> pretty useless, so you might as well get rid of them. >> >> But after that, I can see why you would be reluctant to incentivize >> approving more candidates. >> >> > Here's an idea. When you have elected a candidate, choose which of their > ballots survive, not which are eliminated; and do so in proportion to the > number of remaining hopeful candidates approved per ballot. This naturally > eliminates bullet votes. >
You're still choosing randomly, right? So the probability of surviving will be proportional to the number of remaining hopeful candidates left on that ballot. I like it. (I'm still kind of wary of non-deterministic methods, though. Not for myself, actually, but for selling them to the public.) - Andy
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