[Election-Methods] method design challenge + new method AMP

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Raphfrk

you wrote:
> One issue with random processes is that they don't work well for a 
> legislature. A majority would just keep asking that the vote be 
> repeated until they win it.
> Saying that a re-vote cannot occur unless the situation changes would
> require that a definition of a change in the situation be decided.

Alternatively, laws could be considered social contracts which have a duration and certain terms of termination which would have to be met by any later decisions to change the law. 

> Also, people have a certain level of distrust for random processes.
> I don't think people would accept a President who was elected even
> though he only had a 1% chance of winning. I am not sure what the
> threshold is before it would be acceptable (some people would object
> to a 49% candidate winning instead of a 51% candidate).

This is probably true. I would not recommend such a method for elections of Presidents or the like but for bodies who frequently make individual decisions on issues.

Yours, Jobst


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