Very cool.
At 10:17 PM -0400 10/2/03, Andrew Myers wrote:
If you'd like to use the service, see
http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~andru/icvs
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I've implemented a Condorcet voting service that lets anyone set up
their own elections over the Internet, with reasonable protection for
the security and privacy of the voters. It uses Beatpath Winner to rank
the candidates.
If you'd like to use the service, see
http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~
This method can also be called "raising the bar" analogous to the way high
jump and pole vaulting contests are carried out in track meets.
The "ante" is the bar level. As the bar gets higher and higher, the
weaker candidates start to drop out. Once a candidate misses, the
possibility for recover
Dear all,
I have recently found a thread from 2002 from this mailing list dealing
with "D'Hondt without lists".
(see e.g.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08214.html)
It's about proportional election without party lists (or, you could say,
the "lists" are determined by each vot
Here's yet another approach that uses the same basic idea as Gradual Info
Approval. I call it "up the ante approval" or "Auntie" for short:
Initialize the "approval ante" as 0.
Mark all candidates as "viable" initially.
Initialize all candidates' approval at 1 (or any other value greater than
zer
The Free State Project, a libertarian group trying to relocate 20,000
activists to one state (I am not a member, I hasten to add) held its
election. They used Condorcet, apparently with winning votes (although it
didn't matter since there was a CW). New Hampshire won, beating out the 9
other cand
