[Election-Methods] elect the compromise

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Forest,

> Perhaps candidates should be required to publish their range ballots 
> before the election, and their "trading" of assets should be required 
> to be "rational" relative to these announced ratings?
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I had this idea, too. But upon closer inspection, it is not quite easy 
to define what in this case "rational" means, since in this form of 
trading there easily arise situations similar to the prisoner's dilemma 
and situations in which "bluffing" could work...

Yours, Jobst

> Or perhaps, a randomly chose jury of candidate X supporters should have 
> some say in the candidate X proxy decisions?
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> Forest
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