[EM] Toby Pereira, PR voting methods

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Toby Pereira wrote:
> I'm not sure I exactly followed that. Jameson's option 2 is to look at 
> the nominated slates and see which is best. You could also still use one 
> of the other methods to find a possible winner and then compare it with 
> the best nominated slate (if they are different). Is that anything like 
> what you're saying?

Perhaps it's a mix of the two: the election commission uses the best 
known approximation algorithm, and then others can try to improve upon 
the result. If they don't, then there's already a reasonably good 
result; if they do, all the better.

If the algorithm that produces the better result is then disclosed, the 
election commission can later make use of it. That would be a 
convergence towards the best result by a competition among algorithms, 
rather than by a competition among results.