[EM] A Proportionally Fair Consensus Lottery for which Sincere Range Ballots are Optimal

[Warren Smith]

--yep.  Only reason I did what I did was simplicity (kind of a pain if
voters have to submit
both a range-type and a condorcet or approval-type ballot).
But your way is better in that it tends to yield a better winner than my way.

Also, note -- which is even more obnoxious -- we could have each voter
submit TWO ratings-style ballots,
the "honest range ballot" and the "dishonest range ballot"; then the
HRB is used to
decide between DHR and random ballot...


On 11/20/09, Raph Frank <raphfrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is effectively performing random ballot and then giving the
> voters the option to roll the dice a second time.
>
> Any single seat method could be used to select the first candidate.
> If you used a good single seat method to pick the compromise winner,
> then the random ballot would rarely if ever be activated.
>
> For example.
>
> 1) Voters submit ratings ballot and also a ranked or an approval ballot
> 2) Determine the winner using condorcet or approval (or other method)
> 3) Determine the random ballot odds for each candidate
> 4) If a majority prefer the winner in 2 to the expectation in 3), then
> the winner from 2 wins.
> 5) Otherwise, use the random method
>
> Ofc, using a majority instead of a unanimous decision breaks some of
> the properties of the pure consensus method.
>


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