All elections vertical version

DEMOREP1 at aol.com DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Thu May 2 09:38:32 PDT 1996


For demonstration purposes head to head candidate comparisons in all
elections using numerical rankings (1, 2, 3, etc.) can be shown in the
vertical form below.
For executive and judicial elections, the electors are able to disapprove
each candidate (using a zero (0) vote). If a majority of the electors
disapprove a candidate, then such candidate loses.

TW- Test Winner(s), TL- Test Loser, TOL- Test other loser(s)
v- first choice votes

TW1   vvvvvvvvvvv
TW2   vvvvvvv
TW3   vvvvvvvv

TL      vvvvv

TOL1  vvvvvv
TOL2  vvvvv
TOL3  vvv

For testing purposes, the second, third, etc. choice votes of the test other
losers get transferred to a test winner or a test loser.

For legislative elections the highest vote on each ballot counts for a test
winner or a test loser.

For executive and judicial elections the N highest votes on each ballot count
for a test winner or a test loser. Example a ballot having TOL2 listed first
might have the next choices being TW2, TOL3, TL, TOL1, TW1, TW2. Candidates
TW2, TL and TW1 would each get a vote (with 3 candidates being elected to the
office).

If each test winner receives more votes than each test loser (in rotation),
then such test winner is a winner.

If there is not a unique set of test winners (as will be likely with a large
number of candidates), then there must be a tie breaker. 
One obvious tie breaker is to have all of the candidates who cannot beat any
other candidate lose and to repeat the testing procedure.
Another obvious tie breaker is to have the candidate with the fewest first
choice votes lose and to repeat the testing procedure (repeated until the
final number of candidates are elected). The logic being that such candidate
had his/her head to head chance so his/her first choice supporters being
fewest should be the electors who must go to their second or later choices to
break the tie.

For legislative elections, each elected candidate could have a voting power
in the legislative body equal to the number of votes finally received (i.e.
proxy representation- each elector's vote is a proxy given to the elected
candidate to be used in voting in the legislative body).

The above is a textual explanation. For doing the computer math, there would
be an array having all of the various candidate combinations with the votes
for each candidate.



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