[Election-Methods] A Monotone, Clone Proof Lottery for which Sincere Rankings = Optimal Strategy

2008-06-27 Thread fsimmons
Dear Jobst, Draw a ballot at random. Use the ranking on this ballot to rank all of the other ballots from worst to best according to their favorites. Elect the favorite indicated on the k_th ballot with probability 2*k/(n+n^2) , where n is the number of ballots. Can this be adapted to

Re: [Election-Methods] Determining representativeness of multiwinner methods

2008-06-27 Thread Juho
On Jun 27, 2008, at 13:54 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: That could be one big poster where the candidates are listed on the right hand side and the left hand side is used for representing the tree structure (and the names of the parties and the subgroups). That could work, at least in c

Re: [Election-Methods] Determining representativeness of multiwinner methods

2008-06-27 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
That could be one big poster where the candidates are listed on the right hand side and the left hand side is used for representing the tree structure (and the names of the parties and the subgroups). That could work, at least in cases where there's only one district and the party limits the d

Re: [Election-Methods] Wikimedia adopts the Schulze method

2008-06-27 Thread rob brown
Pretty cool. I was curious how my condorcet bar chart thing worked on the results: http://karmatics.com/voting/bars.html Unfortunately that many candidates doesn't fit very well on a smaller monitor, I'm sure I could tweak it to display more compactly, but in the meantime here is a scaled down i