Aaron Goldfein wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Sean Hunt<ride...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sean Hunt wrote:
>>> Aaron Goldfein wrote:
>>>> I initiate an election to decide the holder of the Anarchist office.
>>>> The eligible voters are the active players, the vote collector is the
>>>> IADoP, and the valid options are allispaul, C-walker, Tiger
>>>> (incumbent), Yally, and PRESENT.
>>> For the purposes of this conditional vote, the following numbers are
>>> associated with each option:
>>>
>>> c-walker    1
>>> Tiger       2
>>> allispaul   3
>>> Yally       4
>>>
>>> For each unconditional non-PRESENT vote cast in this election, its value
>>> is P^N mod 5, where N is the number associated with the option voted
>>> for, and P is the Mth prime number after 5 (7 is the first, 11 is the
>>> second, and so on), where M is one plus the number of unconditional
>>> non-PRESENT votes prior to that one in this election.
>>>
>>> I vote for the candidate associated with the most common value among the
>>> unconditional non-PRESENT votes cast in this election. If there is no
>>> such candidate, I vote for the candidate associated with the value of
>>> the third unconditional non-PRESENT vote cast after this one in this
>>> election. If there is no such candidate, I vote PRESENT.
>>>
>>> (Note to the IADoP: if you provide me a list of unconditional
>>> non-PRESENT votes cast in this election, in order, I'll work out who I
>>> vote for. I intend this to be pseudorandom, not to kill the IADoP)
>> I retract the above ballot and submit an identical one, except with the
>> word "valid" inserted prior to each instance of the word "unconditional"
>>
> Why don't you just roll a die?
More fun this way. And gives a determined competitor the opportunity to
try to game the vote.

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