[EM] Best Ever Single Winner Method?

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

Hybrid method, using runoffs. I'm not sure the complication is 
necessary, over simple Asset, and "reasonable" is for the voters to 
judge, in any Asset method.

But this is a good method.

The best voting systems are not deterministic.

Runoff voting is the widest- used "advanced method." In fact, it's very 
old, standard democratic process simply keeps voting until someone gets 
a majority. No eliminations. IRV went around killing a method superior 
to IRV (because of what actually happens in runoffs, and especially if 
write-ins are allowed in a runoff. Simple top two runoff without 
write-ins is guaranteed to find a simple and meaningless majority. 
People are suckers for words with the core meaning gutted.

The runoff can be avoided if preferred and acceptable coincide, and 
acceptable is a majority. But runoffs, especially with write-is allowed, 
validate that a majority acceptance is informed, not merely an artifact 
of appearances in the primary.

I still prefer to handle single-winner elections with an Asset Assembly, 
majority of "effective proxies" required for completion. The entire 
electorate is represented in the Electoral College and could negotiate a 
winner. (The Asset Assembly is a standard assembly, each seat elected by 
a quota of transferred or direct votes. I expect that in mature Asset, 
almost all effective votes will be indirect, transferred, from people 
the voters actually know and can communicate with. This is a solution to 
the problem of scale in democracy.)

On 5/15/2019 4:21 PM, Forest Simmons wrote:
> This is a three slot method: voters can mark candidates "preferred," 
> "acceptable," or blank (no mark).
>
> There is a simple, low cost, (but not instant) runoff between the the 
> candidate with the greatest number of preferred ratings and the 
> candidate with the greatest approval (preferred plus acceptable ratings).
>
> The runoff is by candidate proxy, i.e. by asset voting.  A candidate's 
> asset total is the number of ballots (or fractions thereof) on which 
> she is marked "preferred."
>
> So if you mark three candidates as preferred, each one of them gets a 
> third of an asset from your ballot.
>
> In general three slot methods get off to a great start, but get bogged 
> down in deciding what to do when it is not clear whether the approval 
> winner or the plurality winner should be the method winner.
>
> And every time we propose asset voting we get bogged down in rules to 
> constrain the candidates to some reasonable way of using their assets 
> to settle on a winner.
>
> This hybrid method avoids both problems in one fell swoop!
>
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