[EM] Math Question

[Narins, Josh]

Your plan has a serious flaw, in that the top region might contain top spots
#2 and #3, but not the #1 choice ;)

What I was really asking is if anyone has/can quantify how imprecise
truncation to 2 votes makes voting on 20 candidates.

or truncation to 20 if there are 200



-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Small [mailto:asmall at physics.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:57 PM
To: election-methods-list at eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [EM] Math Question


Narins, Josh said:
> There are 200 countries.

Have 2 elections, each with 14 or 15 candidates.  The first election
selects a region, the second selects a country within that region.  During
the second round have a "debate" among the "candidates":  Order food
common in each country, so you can make an informed choice.  Be warned: 
If Greenland is excluded it might file a lawsuit arguing that the debate
process discriminates against Green candidates  ;)

Or, try the Dart Board Selection Algorithm:  Get a map and some darts and
have fun!  ;)


Alex


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