[EM] Practical Democrach

Andrew Myers andru at cs.cornell.edu
Mon Jan 25 11:56:48 PST 2016


> So, the "tl;dr" version is roughly: Voters get together in groups of 
> 3, choose the best of the 3 to represent Them at the next stage, 
> selected Representatives then lather and rinse and repeat, yes?

This seems like a terrible system that will lead to tyranny. In a system 
with n levels, you need only something like (2/3)^n of the leaf voters 
on your side to win. With 7 levels that's 6%.

-- Andrew


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