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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As an aside, "Random Approval" is the single-winner version of COWPEA Lottery. <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/COWPEA_Lottery" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://electowiki.org/wiki/COWPEA_Lottery</a></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, 18 June 2022, 14:29:44 BST, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">A thought about how honest equal-rank might be defined. Earlier I've<br></div><div dir="ltr">said that a good way to define a honest ballot is to find a randomized<br></div><div dir="ltr">strategyproof system that induces it (e.g. Random Ballot for<br></div><div dir="ltr">single-mark, Random Pair for strict ranked, possibly some transformation<br></div><div dir="ltr">of Hay for VNM utility ballots).<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">How about this as a starting point?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"Random Approval": Voters provide Approval-style ballots. Choose a<br></div><div dir="ltr">ballot at random. If this ballot approves a single candidate, then elect<br></div><div dir="ltr">that candidate. Otherwise eliminate every non-approved candidate and<br></div><div dir="ltr">draw another ballot (without replacement). Ignore ballots only approving<br></div><div dir="ltr">eliminated candidates. If every ballot is visited, choose at random a<br></div><div dir="ltr">candidate from the winning set.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-km<br></div><div dir="ltr">----<br></div><div dir="ltr">Election-Methods mailing list - see <a href="https://electorama.com/em " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://electorama.com/em </a>for list info<br></div></div>
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