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Hi folks,
Raul Miller and I have been hashing this off line for a bit,
and this is what we have come up with (most of the driving came from
Raul, I am merely pushing this into the -vote list):
It still needs to be reviewed, and we'll need additional language
which replaces the name "Concorde", throughout the constitution.
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A.3. Voting procedure
1. Each independent set of related amendments is voted on in a
separate ballot. Each such ballot has as options all the sensible
combinations of amendments and options, and an option Further
Discussion. If Further Discussion wins then the entire resolution
procedure is set back to the start of the discussion period. No
quorum is required for an amendment. The Further Discussion
option must not have any supermajority requirements. The
default supermajority requirement is one of 1:1, and shall
apply to all options on the ballot unless otherwise specified.
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[Delete 2, since we do not need two votes, one to finalize the
resolution, and a second to actually vote on it, the first ballot
may now contain the resolution, all amendments, and the options
could be a) the original resolution, b) resolution + amendment 1;
c) resolution + amendment 2 <supermajority X:Y>; d) Further Discussion]
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A.6. Concorde Vote Counting
1. This is used to determine the winner amongst a list of options.
Each ballot paper gives a ranking of the voter's preferred
options. (The ranking need not be complete.)
2. Option A is said to Beat option B if more specify that option
A is over option B than prefer B to A.
3. Option B is said to be in the Beat Path of option A if option
A beats option B, or if there is an option C in the beat path
of option A where option C beats option B.
4. An option A is said to be in the Schultz set if there is no
option B where both A is in the beat path of B and B is not
in the beat path of A.
5. All options which do not beat the default option by their
supermajority ratio are discarded, and references to them
in ballot papers will be ignored.
6. If a quorum is required, there must be at least that many votes
which prefer the winning option to the default option. If there
are not then the default option wins after all. For votes
requiring a supermajority, the actual number of Yes votes is used
when checking whether the quorum has been reached.
7. If no option beats the default option, the default option wins.
8. If only one option remains in the schultz set, that option is
the winner.
9. If all options in the schultz set are tied with each other,
the elector with the casting vote picks the winner from the
schultz set.
10. Otherwise, there are multiple options in the schultz set and
they are not defeated equally:
a. The weakest defeat is identified. The weakest defeat
is the fewest votes against any option in the schultz
set, and (for that many votes against) the most votes
for the corresponding option in the schultz set.
b. If more than one option has the exact same number of
votes in favor and the exact same number of votes opposed,
and if those numbers are the same as for the weakest defeat,
all these option pairs are considered to be examples
of the weakest defeat.
c. The schultz set is then refigured with the Beats of the
weakest defeats eliminated.
d. We resume at step 8 with the new schultz set to determine
the winner.
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manoj
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and more efficient would the current models be? If you have not
already heard the analogy, the answer is shattering. Today you would
be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75, it would do three million
miles to the gallon, and it would deliver enough power to drive the
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