[Election-Methods] Challenge: Elect the compromise when there'reonly 2 factions

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 08:19 AM 8/30/2007, raphfrk at netscape.net wrote:
>That isn't how asset voting works.  You assign your vote to the elector
>that you most trust.  The elector can then assign the vote to any candidate
>after negotitation.

Actually, what Paul wrote about was the original Asset proposal. I 
proposed Fractional Approval Asset Voting (which might normally mean 
that voters would vote for one, but they are *allowed* to vote for 
more than one), to make the ballot practical and simple. In FAAV, if 
you vote for N, the vote is divided fractionally, as 1/N, to each 
candidate you vote for.

But the original proposal allowed votes to be real numbers in the 
range of 0 to 1, with the restriction that they sum to one. If that 
is what we wanted, we would probably normalize the ballots, to avoid 
problems with math errors.