[EM] Warren D. Smith completes part II of "best voting systems" paper...

Warren Smith warren.wds at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 18:25:34 PDT 2008


I previously wrote a long math paper
The Best Rank-Order Voting System versus Range Voting
http://rangevoting.org/BestVrange.html

and I am now making it be a two-part sequence of papers. The 2nd part
is now done:
Best voting systems in D-dimensional politics models
http://rangevoting.org/BestVot2.html

Actually neither part is *really* done and comments will be appreciated.
(I still have not processed many of the comments I received on
part I, though...)

The main things that bother me about part I (besides it being horrendously long)
are my failure to really produce a lot of the closed formulas I proved
could be got, and the fact I only did most of it for 3 candidates.
Perhaps I can extend it
to do 4 candidates also and to produce the missing closed formulas.  Both look
feasible.  Part II is thankfully a lot shorter.
Part I although long is concisely summarized in a table and plot.

-- 
Warren D. Smith
http://RangeVoting.org  <-- add your endorsement (by clicking
"endorse" as 1st step)
and
math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html



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