[EM] A New Multi-winner (PR) Method

[Warren D Smith]

On 4/11/19, Warren D Smith <warren.wds at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Forest, this is in reaction to your new "card dealing" PR multiwinner
> voting method.

--another reaction: in the method you described, there are a lot of exact ties.
You say stuff like "choose the next card to deal as the one most
favorable to candidate 3"
but there will be many tied-for-most.  I presume you break all such
ties randomly.
In your example with 10000 voters & 5 winners, I think it would be common for
there to be more than 1000 such randomness-assisted events.
That is a lot of randomness.  So the "quality function" would actually not
be a function of the ballots and winner-set alone, it also would
be a function of a truckload of random coin tosses.

That is problematic.

-- 
Warren D. Smith
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