[Election-Methods] a strategy-free range voting variant?

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Warren,

you wrote:
> To answer one of my own questions,
> if you alter the percentages - which you have the freedom to do - away
> from 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 to, say,
>   deciders:  5%
>   compensators: 90%
>   benchmarkers   (which I'm confused about): 5%
> then the compensators will have a fixed fee per capita which is small
> (about 18 times smaller than average). Therefore, my complaint that
> "poor" voters would have incentive not to vote leaving to a rich-dominated
> electorate, will be diminished.   For practical purposes in large elections
> this should be an adequate fix of this problem (if it really was a problem).
> 
> Designer has freedom to alter these 3 percentages to optimize real-world
> performance.

Yes, of course, I chose 1/3 only for simplicity's sake. But for large 
electorates, proportions between the groups should be optimized. 
However, the deciding group must still be large enough to be 
sufficiently "representative" of the whole electorate.

Jobst