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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you determinize COWPEA it would lose independence of clones (cloned candidates would struggle to get elected), so it could give quite disproportional results because of that. Off the top of my head, not sure about IIB and ULC.</div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, 18 June 2022, 17:33:40 BST, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On 18.06.2022 15:43, Toby Pereira wrote:<br clear="none">> As an aside, "Random Approval" is the single-winner version of COWPEA<br clear="none">> Lottery. <a shape="rect" href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/COWPEA_Lottery" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://electowiki.org/wiki/COWPEA_Lottery</a><br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/COWPEA_Lottery" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://electowiki.org/wiki/COWPEA_Lottery</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none">A possible way to determinize a lottery is to take the mode (the council<br clear="none">elected most often). That generally preserves monotonicity. Would it<br clear="none">preserve IIB and ULC?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I once thought about a semiproportional method that goes: pick a random<br clear="none">ballot, elect the candidate on it, eliminate this candidate from every<br clear="none">other ballot, and repeat. The determinized version is not PR, but it<br clear="none">gets closer the more seats there are. Possibly the determinized COWPEA<br clear="none">method also loses its proportionality and becomes only semiproportional,<br clear="none">but I haven't checked.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(I wonder if the determinization of a DAC/DSC version would be<br clear="none">Droop-proportional... something like "take random ballot,<br clear="none">round-eliminate the uneliminated candidate ranked last, repeat taking<br clear="none">random ballots until only one candidate remains, then elect and<br clear="none">eliminate (for good) this candidate, then restore the round-uneliminated<br clear="none">candidates and repeat".)<div class="ydpfce1d0a4yqt0494983056" id="ydpfce1d0a4yqtfd43171"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-km<br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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