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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">One of the agenda items is
"</font>rules for reducing a large field of candidates to a field
of 2 to 5". This seems to me an important topic, since voters cannot
be expected to vote in the way ranked preference methods assume if
the number of candidates is large. Presumably proposals have been
made for addressing it; unfortunately I haven't seen them.<br>
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One which occurs to me is this. There are two rounds, the first of
which may have up to (say) 20 candidates and reduces the number to
(say) 6, and the second of which uses ranked preferences to find a
single winner from the 6. <br>
In the first round, each candidate nominates up to 3 "alternates"
from the rest of the field; these are listed in order against his
name on the ballot. The ballots use FPTP format - choose *one*
option - but are processed as multiwinner STV ballots in which a
vote for A is treated as a vote A>B>C>D, where B...D are
his alternates. Surplus votes are not transferred. Choose the 6
winners as the survivors to the second round. <br>
I dare say there exist better ideas, but I thought I'd mention
it. <br>
CJC<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/08/2023 12:33, Kristofer
Munsterhjelm wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:9100b9f9-637e-c58e-60ff-2b35265121fa@t-online.de">I was
browsing Reddit when I found this:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://old.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/14j3r97/rcv_will_be_on_an_oregon_ballot_referendum_in_2024/jqayw65/">https://old.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/14j3r97/rcv_will_be_on_an_oregon_ballot_referendum_in_2024/jqayw65/</a>
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Apparently Tideman is organizing a discussion about Condorcet
methods in September. I thought it might be interesting to EM
members, although I don't know if they'd admit more people this
late!
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-km
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