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<big><big>To Brian Olson and Election Methods members,<br>
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On your TODO list, you mention multi-winner elections.<br>
There is at least one programming organisation (OpenSTV, I
believe) who reckons to have done all the variants of STV.
However, they have not done Binomial STV (my innovation). The
most ideally placed person to do this would be someone who has
already coded Meek STV (as in New Zealand) because Binomial STV
follows on from the Meek key concept of the re-adjustable keep
value. <br>
However, with Binomial STV, not just the keep values of surplus
vote candidates are counted but also candidates with deficits of
the keep value. This is to enable comparison of the status of
all candidates, in a series of systematic re-counts, without
premature exclusion of candidates. <br>
That means that even in single seat elections, Binomial STV can
elect without excluding candidates, and without resorting to
Condorcet pairing, which does not make one over-all comparison
of the candidates.<br>
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The most basic form of Binomial STV is first order Binomial STV,
which is a preferential count of all the candidates keep values,
in surplus or deficit of a quota, and then a reverse
preferential count. The keep values of un-preference are
inverted and then averaged with the preferential keep values, to
give average keep values for all the candidates.<br>
In order not to give the reverse preference count undue
importance, compared to the preference count, all the
preferences are counted, including preference abstentions, which
are at the end of the ballot papers, reducing the importance of
reverse preferences, unless the voter has ranked all the
candidates.<br>
With Binomial STV, returning a blank ballot paper is equivalent
to: None Of The Above.<br>
Binomial STV is explained in my second e-book on election reform
and research.<br>
</big></big><big><big>I have studied this subject all my adult
life, to past pension age.<br>
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Scientific Method of Elections:<br>
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"Scientific Method of Elections"<br>
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Thankyou for your time.<br>
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On 07/12/2015 18:03, Brian Olson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have relaunched my election tool
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://betterpolls.com/">http://betterpolls.com/</a>
It’s a simplified and streamlined tool now. It’s currently only single-winner elections with ranked or rated ballots counted by Virtual Round Robin (Condorcet’s method) or my pet method Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings.
It’s all about social networking now. It requires a Google or Facebook id to create a poll or to vote[1][2]. There are lots of buttons for sharing a poll.
On the TODO list:
* multi-winner elections via STV or proportional Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings.
* vote analytics, showing histograms of how people voted on each choice
* hidden-until-poll-close results
* anonymized vote data dump
* Anything else I missed? Any feature requests?
[1] Yes, a really motivated person could vote twice, or make more accounts and vote more often. For now I’m not worrying about that.
[2] Some people will be dissuaded from using the tool to create polls or vote because of this requirement. This feels like a pretty small minority of the internet right now. I may yet add back username-password login accounts, but it simplifies things for me to not do that. Some pretty big parts of the internet aren’t even as generous as offering both options and require Facebook login to do anything.
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