[EM] Vote Management

[Forest Simmons]

How about groups of three.  Then every sub decision would be made by a two
thirds majority.

Forest

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 josh at narins.net wrote:

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> Noob Question.
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> What do you call the "layering" of election systems in the manner used
> for early 'merican Presidents (elected by the elected, 2nd level, so to
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> I was just daydreaming, daydreaming about everyone getting in groups of 11.
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> They choose 1.
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> Each group gets to watch the next level, to see how the person they
> chose does at the next higher level, also in groups of 11.
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> I had been thinking earlier about any method which might result in
> _finding_ the best candidates to run, because certainly the list of
> people-we-hear-about-with-a-chance couldn't include the best candidates.
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> Would a party that could "divine" the best candidates have a good
> chance? What if the people who did the divining were quite confident
> with their system?
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> Sigh.
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> Anything you can do, even IRV (Gore would have won with IRV?)
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