Jobst,
how about this slight variation on your suggestion?
1. Ranked ballots with truncation.
2. Draw a ballot at random.
3. Draw additional ballots at random until there is one that has at least one
ranked candidate in common with the first ballot, or until all ballots are
exhausted.
Dear Forest!
Another modification of Random Ballot that encourages election of good
compromise candidates, using ranked ballots (instead of approval ballots
as in AP-RB):
1. Ranked ballots with truncation.
2. Draw two ballots at random.
3. If no candidate is ranked on both, elect the one ranked t
Dear Forest,
You wrote:
> Martin suggested listing all of the candidates in order of approval
> count, and then on each ballot circle the candidate approved on that
> ballot that is highest on the list. Each ballot has one candidate
> circled, so each voter ends up supporting exactly one candidat
Jobst,
Great Idea!
It reminds me of Martin Harper's idea for recasting Approval as a vote
concentration method in order to appease the extreme "one person one vote"
people.
Martin suggested listing all of the candidates in order of approval count, and
then on each ballot circle the candid
Dear folks!
This post is about the question how Random Ballot can be modified so
that compromising is easy.
Why is this important?
Although pure Random Ballot is only interesting for theoretical reasons,
it is a very useful *ingredient* in the construction
(non-deterministic) of methods that ar
