<div>Jameson,</div><div><br></div><div>I have become confused about one point of operation in SODA. Take this scenario:</div><div><br></div><div><div>35 A>B>C</div><div>34 B>C>A</div><div>31 C>A>B</div></div>
<div><br></div><div>If A delegates to A,B then does B have 69 votes he can delegate to B,C or does he have only 34 he can play with?</div><div><br></div><div>In other words, can votes delegated from one candidate to another be re-delegated to a third candidate?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I looked at the wiki and still am unclear on this. I still have the original SODA proposal in my head (where votes could not be delegated multiple times) and I can't remember if we've changed this detail at some point.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Jameson Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Russ, you said that SODA was too complicated. In my prior message, I responded by saying that it was actually pretty simple. But thanks for your feedback; I realize that the SODA page was not conveying that simplicity well. I've changed the procedure there from 8 individual steps to 4 steps - simple one-sentence overviews - with the details in sub-steps. Of these 4 steps, only step 1 is not in your proposal. And the whole of step 4 is just three words.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The procedure is exactly the same, but I hope that <a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Simple_Optionally-Delegated_Approval#Procedure" target="_blank">this version</a> does a better job of communicating the purpose and underlying simplicity of the system.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jameson</div></div>
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