[EM] Bounded AV

[Olli Salmi]

I recently read something about elections in Venice. I think it was in this
PDF
file, which I found when I wasd looking for information on Ramón Llull (or
Lull)
who invented Condorcet voting in the 13th century.
Voting in Medieval Universities and Religious Orders
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/mclean/Voting%20in%20Medieval%20Universities%20an
d%20Religious%20Orders.pdf

There is a reference in the paper to this:
Lines, M. 1986. Approval voting and strategy analysis: A Venetian example.
Theory and Decision 20:155---72.
And the text mentions "n-dimensional issue space". I think you're right about
the meaning.

NOTA is something I don't understand. Who will do the work if nobody is
elected? Where do we get new and better candidates from? I associate NOTA
with elections in Russia, where it paralysed the work of the Soviets after
the fall of communism.

I'm sorry if you get two postings about this. I sent one earlier from a
computer I didn't subscribe to this list from and it hasn't shown up yet.

Olli Salmi

At 03:00 +0300 29.4.2002, hager2002 at lsh107.siteprotect.com wrote:
>I have a question that has been bugging me, and now that I'm not a
>candidate I can indulge myself.
>
>I read a paper by Marji Lines (cited by Brams) dealing with the Venetian
>Republic's use of AV.  If I didn't misunderstand, the Venetian Republic
>used AV but required that the winner get 66%.  I later read in another
>paper about a "rule of 64%".  In essence it said that single winner would
>be assured with no cycles in something called an "n-dimensional issue
>space" as n approached infinity at just under 64%.  Is an "n-dimensional
>issue space" just a recondite way of saying n choices?  And, if it does
>mean that, was the Venetian system "perfect" in the sense that it avoided
>cycles?
>
>This suggests replacing the idea of None of the Above (NOTA) with the
>Venetian system.  NOTA is a veto such that if it gets a majority, all
>candidates are rejected and a new election with different candidates is
>held.  With the Venetian system, set it up so that a failure of any
>candidate to get at least 66% means that all candidates are rejected and a
>new election with new candidates must be held.



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