[EM] Toby Pereira, PR voting methods

[Toby Pereira]

On my web page where I describe my Proportional Range Voting System 
(http://www.tobypereira.co.uk/voting.html), I have suggested that it should be 
possible for a computer to sort out the result in a reasonable amount of time. 
Of course, this may not actually be the case considering the number of possible 
winning sets of candidates that you might get in some elections.

So as with other systems, a sequential system could be used. Calculate who would 
be the winning candidate in a single-winner election and then find the best 
combination of two winners, given that the single winner is elected. Then with 
these two elected, find the best combination of three and so on. Then if this 
takes it too far the other way and makes it too "easy" for a computer to 
calculate you can select candidates in blocks of two or three. I think I've seen 
Forest Simmons and others discussing this hybrid version of 
sequential/non-sequential systems.

I think this would still be a very different system to Reweighted Range Voting, 
especially consdering that it elects single winners in a different way.




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From: Warren Smith <warren.wds at gmail.com>
To: election-methods <election-methods at electorama.com>
Sent: Sun, 3 July, 2011 20:25:35
Subject: [EM] Toby Pereira, PR voting methods

Two are RRV
  http://rangevoting.org/RRV.html
and asset voting
  http://rangevoting.org/Asset.html

A recent real-world election that used RRV is described here:
  June2011RealWorldRRVvotes.txt

In T.P.'s essay it'd be nice if he subdivided it into smaller chunks
with subheading titles, and summarized whatever he concluded
concisely.

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