Hi, first a quick note: I haven't been commenting because real life stuff, work, etc has been keeping me busy, but I fully intend to go back and answer any posts sent to me via the list(s). If just that my time and focus comes in bursts and droughts. ;)
Second note, I continue to thank all who are being helpful to me in the journey. Now, I asked my friend, who hasn't read up on election stuff to come up with a good method - I was wondering what someone intelligent would come up with, with no prior exposure to election science. Note: the thought experiment I asked of him had many basic constraints, for example, the requirement that a voter be able to go and vote on a single day within ten minutes, and that there would be ten candidates, among others. This is the method he suggested: * Present the people with the ballot of 10 candidates and ask them to pick their top three and their bottom three. * Every time a candidate is picked in a person's top three, the candidate gets a +1. Every time a candidate is picked in a person's bottom three, the candidate gets a -2. The four candidates the person did not pick for either get +0. (Sidebar: For N number of candidates, you have MOD(N/3) positives, MOD(N/3) negatives, and the rest are left neutral.) * At the end of the night, we add up the scores and the candidate with the highest score wins--even if the score is negative. It's very interesting, and I in my newness to this all don't immediately the warts, but since every method has them, I assume this one does too? What do you guys think of this? -Benn Grant eFix Computer Consulting <mailto:b...@4efix.com> b...@4efix.com 603.283.6601
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