[EM] Resume: Proportional multi-winner ranked voting methods - guidelines?

[Richard Lung]

To all.

Of election method, the founders came up with two (more) options: for 
counting ranked choice: Condorcet and Borda.
As previously explained, both ways have information value. This group 
talks much about the Condorcet route. I chose the Borda route, as 
refined by JB Gregory for multi-member PR. My invention of Binomial STV 
progresses on that path. BTV does not have the information-loss problems 
from irregularities in the count, as discussed in terms of opportunities 
for strategic voting.
I would say that BTV short-comings, which it no doubt has, are to do 
with the recognised limitations of traditional statistics, more than 
anything else. But BTV underlines that elections really are statistical 
exercises of the voters indeterminate support for candidates. Altho some 
election results are obvious enough. In general, results are not of the 
deductive kind: this is the right result. Rather, this more or less 
probably is the balance of voters judgment.

from
Richard Lung.


On 02/06/2017 08:23, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> On 05/22/2017 08:18 PM, VoteFair wrote:
>> On 5/21/2017 7:10 PM, Armando wrote:
>>> Meanwhile I’ll be thankful for any advice of further readings if you
>>> have.
>>
>> You, and we, are exploring frontier territory, so there's not a lot of
>> formal writing about "proportional multi-winner Condorcet" methods
>> beyond what we've told you about.
>>
>> If you, or anyone, has specific questions about what I wrote regarding
>> this topic in "Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections", just 
>> ask.
>
> It's not even all that clear what "proportional multi-winner 
> Condorcet" means, independent of actual implementations. The lower bar 
> is "reduces to Condorcet when there's only one winner", but how could 
> we generalize Condorcet beyond that point? Hard to tell.
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