[EM] Interesting article on proxy voting

[Michael A. Rouse]

I'm not sure is others have seen it, but I found an interesting article 
by Dan Alger on proxy voting here:

(.PDF format)
http://www.pubchoicesoc.org/papers/alger.pdf

(Google HTML link)
http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:HyJsE1mJw4MJ:www.pubchoicesoc.org/papers/alger.pdf+%22proxy+voting%22+condorcet&hl=en&lr=lang_en


 From the introduction:

/I introduce voting by proxy and compare it to direct representation, 
plurality, and single transferable vote (STV), which voting by proxy 
most closely resembles. With one at-large district and given the 
legislators that constitute a legislature, voting by proxy maximizes a 
legislature's representation without degrading constituent service or 
government stability. It also eliminates gerrymandering and allows a 
legislature to rank its representatives by the number of proxies that 
they hold rather than seniority, which would eliminate the inappropriate 
advantages of seniority for incumbents. At the same time, the tighter 
representative-constituent links that voting by proxy creates leads to 
voters becoming better informed, so that special interests have less 
influence. When voting by proxy is also used to eliminate candidates, it 
provides better representation than STV or plurality, and voting costs 
are reduced if computers count votes, rights to debate are based upon 
the number of proxies held, and we eliminate primary and runoff elections.

/Anyway, it's fairly recent (February 2004), so I thought I'd let people 
know in case they were interested and hadn't seen it already.


Michael Rouse
mrouse1 at mrouse.com


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