<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/5/18 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fsimmons@pcc.edu">fsimmons@pcc.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Yes, I do think the non-sequential version of RRV for sufficiently large numbers of winners (with repeated wins allowed) is equivalent to the Ultimate Lottery.<br><br>The Ultimate Lottery is the lottery that maximizes the product of ballot expectations, or equivalently the one that maximizes the sum of the logs of the ballot expectations. <br>
<br>The non-sequential version of RRV basically picks the subset of candidates that maximizes the sum (over the ballots) of the logs of the sums (plus epsilon to avoid the log of zero)) of the ballot ratings of the candidates in the subset.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wait a minute.... so under non-sequential RRV, there is no "leftover Hare quota" of unrepresented voters? If 99 voters vote A100 B99 and one voter votes C100, then C will be in the 2-member parliament? That seems broken.</div>
<div><br></div><div>JQ</div></div>