This has been a rough week for me due to automotive problems. I did find time however to put together a simple voting simulation package: www.rosycrew.com/votsim.factor. I am only supporting plurality voting (PV), approval voting (AV), and borda voting at this time. Maybe later I will provide hare voting as well. That one is somewhat discredited as it tends to be susceptible to voting paradoxes. It is also quite complicated and tends to confuse the average voter. AV has the advantage of being easy to explain, which helps convince people to vote.
The most important next step will be some code to determine a condorcet winner. This is very much a work in progress, so any suggestions on what you would like to see would be appreciated. I still like approval voting. The borda system looks good at first glance because it takes into account ranking, but it has weaknesses. The results are dependent upon how many candidates there are. If there is a liberal qualification method, then there might be a lot of candidates in the election (Communist Party, Free-Beer Party, etc.) who have no chance of winning. This would effect how the borda system tallies the votes for the important candidates and could even change the outcome, even though the marginal candidates aren't receiving hardly any votes at all. Thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
