<div dir="ltr"><div>Instant Range-off Voting is an interesting idea. I thought about it once a while ago too. I didn't renormalize the ballots though, I just set the co-highest to 100 and the co-lowest to 0 for each ballot as a sanitation measure. I eventually abadoned it due to nonmonotonicity, but I think the discussion is a valid one.</div>
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<div>There are some problems with Range Voting, and perhaps tweaking it or adding some new features will fix them, perhaps not. </div>
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<div>Most of the problems seem to involve voters being coerced into making extreme ballots for fear of being outcompeted by strategic rivals. Assuming people will be honest out of charity is naive. Some of them will, perhaps many of them will, but unscrupulous individuals could manipulate an election if there were enough of them. So, in the spirit of idiotproofing voting, let's discuss Range Voting spinoffs.</div>
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<div>so for there is:</div>
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<div>IRNR (Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings)</div>
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<div>Cardinal Condorcet <a href="http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/cwp13.htm">http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/cwp13.htm</a> </div>
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<div>Various semi-proposed tweaking of Range Voting to include an elect majority winner first or elect CW first clause.</div>
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<div>All of these have the same goal and that goal is very simple. To either encourage honest ratings or force more explicit ratings.</div>
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<div>We walk a fine line here. If we flat out enforce normalized distribution, we get Borda... A method so dismal, so appaling, so monumentally bad that it may even be worse than FPTP.</div>
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<div>If you were to make more score diverse ballots count more, it would suffer from the DH3 pathology unless it exactly counteracted the weight of voting honestly.</div>
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<div>That being said, I think the most promising area of development here is based around the concept of a "conditional vote" that came up a few threads ago. The idea here being that individual ballots should "react" to a particular candidate being kicked out of the hopeful group or something like that.</div>
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<div>Anyway, if anyone has any idea for multiwinner ranked/rated methods, those are always appreciated for the study. IRNR STV looks interesting...</div></div>