[EM] Sortition and the Delegable Proxy system

[Clinton Mead]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <
km_elmet at lavabit.com> wrote:

> On 01/31/2012 07:14 AM, Clinton Mead wrote:
>
>> Why not simply IRV until 500 candidates are left.
>>
>
> STV would probably be better - or if you want a weighted assembly,
> continuous cumulative voting (which is like RV except every ballot's rating
> is divided by the sum of the undivided ratings on that ballot).
>
>
Why STV? The original poster wanted elected representatives to have votes
proportional to their electoral support yes? There's no need for fractional
transfers from elected candidates then.
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