[Election-Methods] Partisan Politics + a method proposal

[Juho]

On May 25, 2008, at 4:16 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

> How about Asset Voting? It is a truly brillig method. Simple.  
> Invented over a hundred and twenty years ago.

I didn't include Asset Voting or related features since it includes  
"cabinet negotiations" between the candidates and the to-be-elected  
representatives. That may be considered to open too many doors for  
the parties/groups/strong individuals to impact the outcome.  
Delegable proxy represents the idea of bottom-up influencing in a  
more basic way.

>> After the lists of electable persons (candidates) have been created
>> we can arrange the election.  Winners will be simply picked by random
>> votes.
>
> How about simply allowing people to choose who represents them?

At the end of my mail I mentioned delegable proxy as one method that  
is "party agnostic". At this point I covered only the random ballot  
based options (and tried to avoid collegial decision making as much  
as possible).

>> (There are also other methods that are based on a very bottom-up
>> oriented approach like direct democracy and delegable proxy.)

Btw, I should have mentioned also STV as one central "party agnostic"  
method.

> Asset Voting is clean enough and simple enough and really can  
> become DP beyond the secret ballot level.

What property makes Asset Voting be better here? (DP and many methods  
may have problems when votes become public, but why does Asset Voting  
stand out here?)

Juho




		
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