Re: [s-d] [s-b] amending: more elections

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Antonio Dolcetta:
> shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> there, I hope I've changed your mind :-D
> > 
> > I'll think about it ::grin::
> > 
> > Mind you, I think you're likely to get stick from at least one other
> > player - the one that complained when I proposed a first-past-the-post
> > system....
> 
> oh yes.
> Well, the thing is, i couldn't really push myself to write down all that 
> stuff about rankings etc. if it's just to say "we have weird voting 
> systems in our nomic"
> If we want to explore voting systems, how about making a new and REALLY 
> weird one instead of something tedious and ultimately useless like 
> condorcet or borda (hard as it is to resist the attraction for something 
> called "condorcet", that name just wins you over with assonances)
> 

You could use Dodgson's method (but I'm not gonna help you calculate
who wins).

It's funny how nomic immitates life (my life, at least). I actually
*work* in social choice, and I'm writing a paper on committee elections
for a deadline at the end of the month...

-- 
J.
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