[EM] Hay Voting busted

Peter de Blanc peter at spaceandgames.com
Sun Feb 4 22:42:27 PST 2007


On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 00:22 -0500, Warren Smith wrote:
> Inspired by Forest's post of praise, I took a look at "Hay Voting."
> 
> I believe it is bogus.  There are two problems.  First of all, they
> just did the math wrong to get a bogus formula.
> But you can fix their errors and get a different formula.
> Then you run into the second problem, which is that it just doesn't work
> even with the corrected formula.
> 
> I have made a web page by editing Peter de Blanc's page and posted it
> for the moment at   http://rangevoting.org/HayVoting.html
> to explain what is wrong.

I have responded to this here (in the comments):
http://www.spaceandgames.com/?p=8

(No, I don't think we did the math wrong.)

- Peter de Blanc




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