On 4/19/2013 11:09 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
... So, what do people think? Should I change the default definition of SODA to make it have better compliances? Or should I keep it the way it is because the change would never matter in practical terms and would only make the system sound more complex?
Join the club. Each of us favors a method that fails some criterion or another.
I think the best fix is to identify how often each failed criterion occurs. Probably as a percentage, or a percentage range.
Of course that's difficult to do. Yet it will be more meaningful than just having a yes-or-no checkbox for each criterion.
Keep in mind that if you create a variation of SODA, that amounts to creating a new method, which probably requires a new name (or a qualification added to the SODA name).
Of course this reply doesn't directly answer your question. The best solutions are not necessarily easy, but usually they are simple. Richard Fobes ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
