[Election-Methods] Another Lottery Method for the Record

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Jun 28, 2008, at 3:17 PM, fsimmons at pcc.edu wrote:

> In small groups:
>
> A voter is chosen at random.
>
> This voter picks another voter to be eliminated, along with himself.
>
> One of the remaining voters is chosen at random, etc.
>
> If the number of voters is odd, the last voter left decides the  
> election.
>
> If the number of voters is even, a coin is flipped to determine  
> which of the last two voters decides the
> election.

Nice.

Alternatively, only the first voter is chosen at random, and the  
elimination proceeds in a chain.