Re: electing multiple people
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:33:54 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> said:
> Hi, During the discussion on the proposed social committee, I proposed
> that we elect (all) the members of that committee. The Debian
> Constitution currently doesn't provide for a way to do so - it only
> describes how a single winner is decided.
> So, I proposed the following addition to the section A.6. Vote
> Counting (part of appendix A Standard Resolution Procedure):
> + If the election requires multiple winners, the list of winners is
> + created by sorting the list of options by ascending strength.
> + If there are multiple winners with the same ranking which exceed
> + the desired length of the list, the length of the list is extended
> + to include the entire last set of multiple winners.
> Is this technically sound? I don't know voting method syntax.
I do not think this is. I would like the solution to at least
have the property of proportionality, if nothing else, which the above
does not have.
I am working on a variant of the method we use (which is also
defined very clearly in [0]. I want to prevent the kinds of problems
of free riding mentioned in [1], for example, in any mechanism we
select.
With that in mind, I would like to expand on the ideas
presented in [1] above, and expanded upon in [2], rather than try
ad-hoc voting methods. If there are other methods to use that have the
same theoretical underpinnings as [2], I would be happy to consider
them.
manoj
0: A New Monotonic, Clone-Independent, Reversal Symmetric, and
Condorcet-Consistent Single-Winner Election Method --- Markus Schulze
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze1.pdf
1: Free Riding and Vote Management under Proportional Representation by
the Single Transferable Vote --- Markus Schulze
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze2.pdf
2: Implementing the Schulze STV Method --- Markus Schulze
http://m-schulze.webhop.net/schulze3.zip
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