And when its done, you could sell it to Diebold!! 2009/5/27 Hugh Aguilar <hugoagui...@rosycrew.com>: > My symtab program was somewhat boring. I am working on another program now > that should hopefully be more interesting. This is a simulation of voting > systems, derived from the book: "Mathematics and Democracy" (Steven Brams). > Brams is a long-time proponent of Approval Voting. This is a system where a > voter can cast more than one vote (but only one vote per candidate). For > example, a person who prefers the Democrat but would be okay with the > Libertarian, can vote for both the Democrat and the Libertarian, but not the > Republican (who he disapproves of). Similarly, a person who prefers the > Republican but would be okay with the Libertarian, can vote for both the > Republican and the Libertarian, but not the Democrat (who he disapproves > of). Such a system would (hopefully) break the Democrat/Republican > dichotomization that we have in America today. As it is, die-hard Democrats > won't vote for a Libertarian because they believe (correctly) that they are > "wasting" their vote, and that a vote cast for anybody other than the > Democrat is effectively a vote for the Republican. Similarly, the > Republicans also believe that the Libertarians are "stealing" the Republican > votes and throwing the election to the Democrats, so they won't vote > Libertarian either. This is why the Libertarians get about 1% of the vote, > despite the fact that almost everybody in America would be comfortable with > a Libertarian winning, even if this isn't their first choice. > > I have heard that voting-system simulation programs have been written (I > think in Common LISP), but I haven't been able to find them. Can any of you > provide links to any such programs that have already been written? The > system that we use here in America (one vote per citizen) is actually just > one of several systems that have been suggested. It is called Preferential > Voting and it is a bad system --- it tends to reward extremist candidates > (left-wing or right-wing), and to punish moderates. Have any of you read > Brams book mentioned above, or any other books on voting-system design? > > The book also discusses voting-systems that could be used for elections of > several candidates (such as for membership in a ruling committee), and also > fair division of limited resources. Simulation of these systems could also > be done, but I am just working on the winner-take-all election right now, as > this is what is on my mind --- as we have just come away from our > Presidential election. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk >
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