On 01/31/2012 07:14 AM, Clinton Mead wrote:
Why not simply IRV until 500 candidates are left.
STV would probably be better - or if you want a weighted assembly, continuous cumulative voting (which is like RV except every ballot's rating is divided by the sum of the undivided ratings on that ballot).
Wouldn't this produce a similar result without the randomness?
Then it would no longer be strategy-proof. And if it's not strategy-proof, you could use any conventional PR rule.
Another advantage of the randomness is that it's procedurally simple. Instead of doing transfers and re-transfers, you just pick a ballot from the heap and elect the candidate named on it.
With randomness, the voters don't have to know who's in the running, either, making the rule more sortition-like.
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