[EM] RE: The family of "regular" probabilistic (stochastic) electoralsystems

[Bart Ingles]

Good luck trying to get that system adopted anywhere.



DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> This list has gone through the 3 choice circular tie example about 5 times in
> the last 3 years.
>
> The simple general example is--
>
> N1  A>B>C
> N2  B>C>A
> N3  C>A>B
>
> Assume-
> N1+N3 A > N2 B
> N1+N2 B > N3 C
> N2+N3 C > N1 A
>
> The preceding can obviously be expanded for 4 or more choices.  Adding clones
> complicates things further- such as choice B1 after each B (who is totally
> defeated by B).
>
> I have noted many times that for the single office case that a choice should
> get a majority YES vote.
> The minor chaos occurs if 3 or more choices get YES majorities and there is
> no head to head winner.
> One obvious option is to have the choice with the lowest YES majority lose
> and to recheck the head to head math.
>
> What multi-vertex 3 dimensional math inventions (cubes, tetrahedrons or
> whatever) have to do with the preceding is totally beyond the understanding
> of the average citizen who has to do the voting in real elections (or to
> adopt some new election method beyond simple plurality).