[EM] XA

[Monkey Puzzle]

If I may suggest another name for XA, you could call it Capped Approval,
for the following reason.

A voter *caps* the highest rate at which they are willing to approve
candidate X.  By rating the candidate at R%, they express that they are
willing to contribute a vote to X *only *if less than R% of the electorate
is willing to support X at a rate greater than R.  So that candidates
rating, if it includes the R-voter's ballot, is capped at R.

If there are greater than R% of voters who support X at a rate greater than
R%, the R-voter's ballot contributes nothing.

As an alternative, you could call it Qualified Approval.  QA has the
alternate interpretation of Quality Assurance.

I would be very happy with a method of this type if it could be shown to
satisfy at least a weak form of Participation, and Independence from
Irrelevant Alternatives.

 Frango ut patefaciam -- I break so that I may reveal

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Andy Jennings <elections at jenningsstory.com>
wrote:

> In this graphical framework, you can also think of XA as finding the
> largest square that fits between the distribution function and the x axis.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Forest Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> For each candidate, you indicate on your XA ballot what you consider to
>> be an appropriate rating of merit or support on a scale of zero to 100
>> percent
>>
>> In the XA count, your ballot gives full approval to the candidates that
>> you consider under-rated by the rest of the voters, and no approval to the
>> candidates that you consider over-rated by the rest of the voters.
>>
>> The candidate with the highest (average or total) approval in the XA
>> count is elected.
>>
>> Any suggestions for improvement?
>>
>>
> Sounds like a good explanation to me.
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