spoon-discuss: voting generalization

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, it occurs to me that voting on Proposals and the voting we might do for 
elections are similar enough that maybe we should have a generalized voting 
procedure to cover both. But, voting can be seen as a game which takes 
certain inputs and gives a single output, the "winner". In the case of 
voting on Proposals, the winner (yea or nay) is, barring some complications 
introduced by quorum, the one which matches more votes. Though we don't 
have any use for it at the moment, a different winner function could be 
used--one that, for instance, picks out a minimum or median. If we defined 
something like a "simple game", of which "voting" is a particular type, the 
conceptual framework for doing things like playing Mediocrity and such 
would be available should we decide to do so. Is anybody interested in 
something like this?

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J.

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