Re: Voting system for elections

2016-07-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
ere in this thread, it's obviously too late to change how the current election is running, but IIRC there have been contested elections reasonably often in the past, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-07-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
separate can of worms.) * Should discounts be rescaled so that the total weight of ballots under consideration drops by a constant amount each round, as in STV? * Are amateur election methods generally as inadvisable as amateur cryptography? ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit