Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Warren Smith wrote: I was contacted by a prestigious musical group to help them hold an election. The election data and results (pending rechecking comments by you all) in anonymized form, are here: http://RangeVoting.org/June2011RealWorldRRVvotes.txt Feel free to run your favorite

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/6/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com Warren Smith wrote: I was contacted by a prestigious musical group to help them hold an election. The election data and results (pending rechecking comments by you all) in anonymized form, are here:

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Warren Smith
If you have a loop like for(i=1 to C) if(x[i]best}{ best=x[i]; ibest=i; } then you will find the maximum x[] but breaking ties always by choosing the maximum index i. However, you can pre-prepare a random permutation of {1,2,...,C} as follows for(i=1 to C) p[i]=i; for(i=C down

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Jameson Quinn wrote: 2011/6/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com mailto:km_el...@lavabit.com So I quickly hacked together something to run it through my old multiwinner code, but I'm getting unusual results. Could someone check that they get what I'm getting? {C101

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/6/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com Jameson Quinn wrote: 2011/6/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com mailto: km_el...@lavabit.com So I quickly hacked together something to run it through my old multiwinner code, but I'm getting unusual results. Could

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Jameson Quinn wrote: Wait is that a global randomization, used across all votes? If it is... or in fact, even if it isn't... I suggest you do what Warren suggested, and run it several times, with different random seeds, to see if the results are reasonably stable. The way my program

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Jameson Quinn
2011/6/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com Jameson Quinn wrote: Wait is that a global randomization, used across all votes? If it is... or in fact, even if it isn't... I suggest you do what Warren suggested, and run it several times, with different random seeds, to see if

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Warren Smith
The musical group who wanted me to process their election, actually wanted, not a list of 9 winners, but actually an ordering of all 16 candidates, top 9 being the winners. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org -- add your endorsement (by clicking endorse as 1st step) and

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Juho Laatu
Should the order be a proportional order or a best single winner order? I guess both are possible although so far the assumption obviously was proportional set or proportional order. Juho On 26.6.2011, at 1.21, Warren Smith wrote: The musical group who wanted me to process their election,

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Warren Smith
http://RangeVoting.org/June2011RealWorldRRVvotes.txt now updated some more and mentions JQ KM. Note there is a Condorcet cycle. It seems peculiar if your 9 winners do not include C101. On 6/25/11, Warren Smith warren@gmail.com wrote: The musical group who wanted me to process

Re: [EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-25 Thread Jameson Quinn
I added a line to print out the remaining candidates, in decreasing order of remaining reweighted ballots, as soon as all seats were filled. (After first finding that if I actually ran the leftover protocol, it only gave one candidate, because after all the reweighting up to that point, all

[EM] real world 9-winner election using RRV

2011-06-24 Thread Warren Smith
I was contacted by a prestigious musical group to help them hold an election. The election data and results (pending rechecking comments by you all) in anonymized form, are here: http://RangeVoting.org/June2011RealWorldRRVvotes.txt Feel free to run your favorite alternative multiwinner