[Election-Methods] [english 94%] Re: method design challenge +new method AMP

[Juho]

On May 3, 2008, at 19:08 , raphfrk at netscape.net wrote:

> One possible solution to the clone issue is to scale the number of  
> candidates to first choice vote.

> One option for that would be to allow people cast a nominating vote  
> as well as the ranking.  The total number of nominee votes would  
> become the quota for each candidate.  If a reasonable number of  
> people (5%) recognised C as a compromise, then he would win.

Yes, use of the first positions and nominations are good approaches  
to eliminate the clone problems in the STV based method (to make it  
more applicable to typical real life elections (not necessarily for  
the challenge of Jobst)). One approach would be to count all the  
candidates that are ranked above the planned winner and share the  
support of the voter between all of them.

Juho




	
	
		
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