[EM] Gaming the Vote

[Ted Stern]

On 30 Jan 2012 23:51:56 -0800, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
>
> On 01/31/2012 01:48 AM, Ted Stern wrote:
>> I've been thinking that one way to spread information about
>> alternative voting systems might be to gamify one or more systems.
>
> [...]
>
>> Has anyone out there in the EM communities thought about this?
>
> I saw someone made a game out of gerrymandering. Did it work to raise
> awareness of the problem of gerrymandering? I don't know, but its
> results might give more information of whether doing something like
> that with voting would work.

One reason I thought that a voting game had promise was this article:

    http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker/all/1

If a silly game about clicking a cow can gain a following, wouldn't
something real have a chance?

Ted
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