[EM] Voter Space Methods, and Antidote to Clone Sensitivity

Forest Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Tue Feb 3 17:51:03 PST 2004


If you have a favorite method that is not independent of clones, you might
try the Voter Space version of that method to neutralize the clone
sensitivity.

If you could guarantee that candidates would be evenly distributed among
the voters, then you would neutralize all clone problems.  This is what
Voter Space accomplishes, because in Voter Space every voter is a virtual
candidate.

Here's how it works: every voter ranks all of the other voters according
to how well they like the other voters' ballots. [This can be done
automatically, believe it or not.]

Then your favorite method is applied to these voter rankings instead of
the original ballots.

Finally, the ballot of the winning voter is used to pick the election
winner.

Enjoy!

Forest





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