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

[VoteFair]

After comments about publication/website-posting dates, this message 
explains some proportionality concepts that get back to the topic of 
this thread.

On 6/4/2017 12:03 PM, Markus Schulze wrote:
 > ...
 > Maybe January 2006 was the target date for the publication of
 > Fobes' book "Ending the Hidden Unfairness in U.S. Elections".
 > However, the first time that this book was actually mentioned
 > somewhere was in January 2007:

This brings up an interesting question.  Which is more significant?  A 
description on a website?  Or a publication in a book or academic journal?

Clearly both Markus Schulze and I have been independently developing 
advanced voting methods.

For clarification about my publication dates: (followed by an 
explanation of the proportional aspects)

* The description of VoteFair popularity ranking -- which is 
mathematically equivalent to the Condorcet-Kemeny method -- is described 
in my book titled "The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox" which I 
published at the beginning of 1993.  At the time I developed this method 
I did not find a description of it online.  Later, Markus Schulze 
claimed that the Condorcet-Kemeny method was described online, but the 
short-paragraph description he referred to was both ambiguous and 
clearly different from what I came up with.  FYI, I based my idea on the 
math concept typically used to fit a straight line through a set of 
points, but without the need to do squaring.

* The descriptions of almost all other aspects of VoteFair ranking are 
described in my book "Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections" 
which I finished getting ready for the printer on 2006-January-11.

* What I'm now calling VoteFair negotiation ranking I developed later, 
after writing those two books.  Recently I posted the software that runs 
the www.NegotiationTool.com website to GitHub.  Of primary interest to 
this group is the calculation algorithm at this link:

 
https://github.com/cpsolver/VoteFair-Negotiation-Tool/blob/master/sub_sort_proposals_overall.pl

Be forewarned that the algorithm is complex, and the comments assume the 
reader is familiar with the information at the www.NegotiationTool.com 
website.

The second and third items above are what are relevant to this thread 
because both of them implement proportional results.  The approach in my 
"elections" book applies when voters can indicate a favorite political 
party.

In contrast, the VoteFair negotiation tool applies to smaller groups of 
people (such as an organization or a parliament), and does not require 
political-party identities, and applies to arriving at a set of 
proposals -- which do not need to involve candidates competing for seats.

For comparison, the Schulze-STV method does not request political-party 
preferences, and only applies to candidates.

My highest priority -- even above getting credit for my contributions -- 
is to get better voting methods adopted so that unnecessary suffering 
under the negative effects of corruption can come to an end sooner 
rather than later.

If that doesn't happen, there won't be any election-reform history worth 
writing about, and then publication/website-posting dates will not be of 
interest.

Richard Fobes


On 6/4/2017 12:03 PM, Markus Schulze wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Richard Fobes wrote (3 June 2017):
>
>> After I published the VoteFair ranking system, Markus Schulze
>> published his "Schulze STV" method, which also fits within
>> the "proportional multi-winner Condorcet" category.
>
> I wrote (4 June 2017):
>
>> A very old description (from 2006) of my Schulze STV method
>> can be found at the website of the Citizens' Assembly on
>> Electoral Reform in Ontario:
>>
>>
> http://www.citizensassembly.gov.on.ca/documents/632974577066763295_schulze_0.zip
>
>
> Richard Fobes wrote (4 June 2017):
>
>> The first edition of my book "Ending The Hidden Unfairness
>> In U.S. Elections" was published in printed form on
>> 2006-January-11.
>
> Maybe January 2006 was the target date for the publication of
> Fobes' book "Ending the Hidden Unfairness in U.S. Elections".
> However, the first time that this book was actually mentioned
> somewhere was in January 2007:
>
> http://www.citizensassembly.gov.on.ca/en-CA/Get-Involved/View-And-Search-Submissions/Detailed-View.aspx?ID=1580
>
>
> Markus Schulze
>
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