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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The
efficiency of heat engines, in thermodynamics, offer an analogy
with voting
methods. Many other sciences do so, if voting method follows the
Stevens
structure of measurement, held in common by other branches of
science. (I
published a free e-book, about scientific models of election
method, called:
Science is Ethics as Electics.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Bold"">The
basic principle, that thermodynamics and election method have in
common is
conservation, either of energy or information. (I believe
scientists are
currently translating energy terms into information terms.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Common-place
teachings of social choice theory, including the American
Mathematics Society,
usually make the claim that there is no perfect voting system.
The equivalent
statement in thermodynamics is that there is no perpetual motion
machine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">As
you point out, that does not preclude voting methods of
different efficiency,
the equivalent of heat engines of differing efficiency. The
engines depend on
efficient transfer of surplus heat, to work requirements, to
keep the engine
going. Similarly, transfers of vote surpluses, to elective
quotas, keep the
count procedure going. Heat forms a random distribution of
motion. And votes
typically form a random distribution of choice (subject to left
or right
skews).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
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mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Binomial STV
would perhaps
be rather more efficient than traditional STV, because it
rationally conserves
exclusion information. In rough analogy, a binomial STV “heat
engine” is better
“insulated,” to conserve heat. Thermodynamics is not just a
dynamic of heat but
also its insulation, in a closed system. Likewise, an election
method is not
just an active election, but also a closed system of exclusion.</span></p>
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Lung.</span></p>
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