[EM] A simple Random Ballot proportional method
Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km_elmet at t-online.de
Sun Aug 31 03:08:02 PDT 2014
And here's a simple method I thought of for a multiwinner method. Would
it be any good?
- Draw k assemblies using Random Ballot.
- Gather everybody who were selected in at least one of these draws, and
set a deadline.
- If, after negotiations, at least 90% (or some high supermajority) of
the gathered people agree on one of the k assemblies drawn, that outcome
is chosen.
- Otherwise, if the deadline passes without agreement, draw another
assembly using Random Ballot. That outcome is then chosen.
The idea is to exclude unlucky draws by using a negotiation phase. Yet
there's little incentive to stall in the hope of getting a favorable
outcome to oneself, because the post-deadline default isn't status quo
but simply another random ballot council.
I suppose the main risk would that not enough people agree and then the
final outcome turns out to be quite disproportional due to bad luck. The
risk would be greater for smaller assemblies. Perhaps it could be
lessened by running n different instances of the above in parallel, and
as long as one of them decide upon an outcome, that outcome is picked.
(If multiple do so, draw one at random.) But I'd have to consider it in
greater detail to find out if that would be proportional.
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