Dear Andrew Myers, this method looks interesting, as it is proportional, Condorcet and non STV-like. You write on your web-page, that: "the correctness of the algorithm depends on a currently unproved conjecture: that if improvement of a committee is possible, it can be done by replacing one member at a time". It would be very difficult to gain support for a method, which relies on an unproven conjecture. I see this as the biggest problem in your proposed method.
I guess that from the presentation every voter votes for M candidates, where M is the number of seats, and that the voter uses range-like voting for each of the candidates voted for on the ballot. I don't understand the two modes - combined weights and best candidate and why two modes are needed. You write on your web page, that: "The factor (*k*+1) may be surprising in the condition for proportional validity, but it actually agrees with proportional representation election methods developed elsewhere; it is analogous to the Droop quota<http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/d/droop-quota.html> used by many STV election methods" It could be nice, if you could show a proof on how the method achieves proportionality, what advantages it has to standard STV and how it tackles strategic-voting/vote management (for instance - give zero weight to the strongest competitors). I assume it is not used for elections anywhere, so some alpha testing could be appropriate. Best regards Peter Zborník 2010/5/4 Andrew Myers <an...@cs.cornell.edu> > If you are looking for a proportional Condorcet method, I will also > recommend the proportional election method that I developed. It is not > STV-like, but it achieves proportionality when there are blocs of voters. It > has the added advantage that it is already built into a running Internet > voting system, CIVS. This algorithm has been used for many online polls and > has been a success. The code of CIVS is publicly available. For more > information about the method, see: > > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/proportional.html > > By the way, CIVS has recently acquired support for internationalization. It > would be easy to construct a Czech instance if someone were willing to > translate approximately 250 sentences from English to Czech. There is, for > example, a Hungarian version (see > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs-test/index.html.hu, translated by > Árpád Magosányi). I am in the market for help translating to other > languages. > > Cheers, > > -- Andrew > > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info >
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