Thanks for this introduction to voting systems! I always wanted to know more about them, but never actually got to study it more—so usually I just suggested approval voting as a reasonable default. (Hence we use it in CZEA)
Btw what do you think of this voting method? https://web.d21.me/en/ (pushed by somewhat eccentric mathematician-trader-billionaire Janecek)
This is a system where voters can give +1, 0, or −1 points to candidates in two-member districts, and the highest-score candidates win. So far, that sounds like score voting. However, there are also limits on how many candidates a given voter can support (4) and oppose (2), making this method something like single non-transferable voting.
This voting method is not mathematically clean, and is subject to every one of the pathologies I described. It’s not particularly hard to describe, but also a bit confusing at first glance. It is probably less likely to be caught in lesser-evil than FPTP, but that’s the best thing I can say about it. Verdict: thumbs emphatically down.
Thanks for this introduction to voting systems! I always wanted to know more about them, but never actually got to study it more—so usually I just suggested approval voting as a reasonable default. (Hence we use it in CZEA)
Btw what do you think of this voting method? https://web.d21.me/en/ (pushed by somewhat eccentric mathematician-trader-billionaire Janecek)
(Btw I would suggest this post gets to curated)
This is a system where voters can give +1, 0, or −1 points to candidates in two-member districts, and the highest-score candidates win. So far, that sounds like score voting. However, there are also limits on how many candidates a given voter can support (4) and oppose (2), making this method something like single non-transferable voting.
This voting method is not mathematically clean, and is subject to every one of the pathologies I described. It’s not particularly hard to describe, but also a bit confusing at first glance. It is probably less likely to be caught in lesser-evil than FPTP, but that’s the best thing I can say about it. Verdict: thumbs emphatically down.