[EM] Practical Democrach

Frank Martinez frankdmartinez at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 12:37:03 PST 2016


Paradoxically, one could argue that's a feature. Right now, one needs to
have support of 50% of all the other voters, roughly speaking, in order to
change the outcome of an election. If that threshold is much lower, voters
might see this system as making it more likely their vote will make a
substantial difference, increasing participation. My vetting concerns,
however, still remain.

On Monday, January 25, 2016, Andrew Myers <andru at cs.cornell.edu> wrote:

> 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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