[EM] Novel Electoral System

[Daniel Kirslis]

Hello!

I am a newcomer to this mailing list, so please forgive me if this message
violates any norms or protocols that the members of this list adhere to.

I have recently developed a novel method for tabulating ranked-choice
elections that attempts to reconcile the concerns of Borda and Condorcet. I
believe that it maintains the simplicity and mathematical elegance of the
Borda count while incorporating Condorcet's concern with pairwise
dominance. Intuitively, it can be understood as ordering candidates by how
close they come to being unanimously selected when plotted in Cartesian
coordinate space. Here is a link to the paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/152eNheS2qkLHJbDvG4EwW3jdO4I_NwcX/view?usp=sharing

Given its simplicity, I have been very surprised to discover that this
method has never been proposed before. I am hoping that some of you all
will take a look at the paper and share your comments, questions, and
critiques. Ultimately, it is my hope that ranked-choice voting advocates
can arrive at a consensus about the best method for RCV and thus strengthen
efforts to adopt it and deliver much needed democratic improvements. But
even if you don't find the system itself compelling, you may find the
method of plotting electoral outcomes elucidated in the paper to be useful
for the analysis of other electoral systems.

Thank you!

-Dan
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