I've been looking at a voting system over the past week or so that I think is really interesting: a combination of the "delegable proxy" system with a sortition procedure to elect a standing legislature.
My objective is to find a way to use conventional voting infrastructure to elect a proportional legislature of bounded size by strategy-free means. I'm not yet 100% certain whether the system actually is strategy-free; I think it is but I haven't yet found a proof. (It's non-deterministic, so I don't think it runs afoul of Arrow or Gibbard–Satterthwaite but proportionality is only probabilistic.) I can't imagine that I'm the first to examine this system, but I haven't found it in any of the voting literature I've read so far (most of Voting Matters and part of the Electowiki). My own writeup can be found at (https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XfoGtx2HBYNyZSYwwiQlcXU7mq_WkLhQzdghv8bGF4o). Any direct insight or pointers to relevant documents would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Bryan ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
