[EM] 1/r as a voting system.

[Dermot Cochran]

Interesting idea about candidate selection.

As a first cut, what if everyone registered their policy positions, and then some kind of clustering algorithm used to find people with similar values?  

The main risk seems to be a loss of anonymity amongst the voters. It could be made semi-anonymous, a candidate's name would only be revealed if they reach the threshold for selection.

Dermot Cochran

> On 17 Apr 2016, at 19:43, Fred Gohlke <fredgohlke at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Good Afternoon, alabio
> 
> You offer a way for the people vote for candidates who have already been nominated for public office.  Have we not forgotten an important step? Shouldn't we start by giving the people a way to select the best candidates, in the first place
> 
> What could be more compelling evidence of the need to let the people select the candidates for public office than the travesty playing out, right now, in U. S. politics?
> 
> Can you suggest a practical way for a large electorate to sift among themselves to find the best advocates of the public interest?
> 
> Fred Gohlke
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