On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Jobst Heitzig wrote:
Dear Russ!
I completely agree with what you wrote!
Just like you, I think that
an "ideal" election
method must integrate both ordinal and cardinal information, and the
cardinal information should be simple approval (yes/no for each
candidate).
I would even go so far to claim that the ideal election should also give
special relevance to a third kind of information: "direct" support.
For example by using Random Ballot to choose from a small set of most
acceptable candidates such as Forest's P.
Or, a new idea, if you find randomization inacceptable, by electing the
member of P with the most direct support!
Yours, Jobst
How about random ballot
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