Post by Dréu Gavárþic'h on Dec 23, 2008 9:23:55 GMT -6
MZs,
This just something I though up after reading Wiliam Poundstone's very provoking and interesting book, Gaming The Vote. So, you know, let's just kick this around for a while. I am still looking for a good sytem for the Cosa. I will tell everyone when I find one.
Enjoy!
Dréu
WHEREAS a plurality voting system is unfair when there are more than two candidates because it forces all parties towards the center and takes away votes from parties that are more to the right or more to the left as can be seen in the classic lemonade stand example where it was hypothesized that the fairest place for two lemonade vendors ("parties") on the boardwalk of a beach to stand would be one inch away from each other, that way, although on any given day there could be more people on the left or right side, the right guy could draw people ("votes") from the left side if the left guy's line was too long and vice versa. The example continues to explain that a third lemonade stand that opens up all the way on the left will get many fewer customers because he cannot draw from the center or right. This is a perfect analogy to plurality voting, which gives centre parties an unfair advantage, and
WHEREAS other systems like the Borda count are unfair because they leads to a process called "burying," where a voter puts a candidate he doesn't like as much further up the list than a candidate he likes more (but who is his preferred candidates rival) which could actually contribute to that candidate who he didn't like winning, and
WHEREAS Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is used in many countries today is also unfair because in the case that there are three parties (two major, and one minor), and one of the major parties "steals" votes from the minor party, that major party can actually lose the election because they got more votes, and
WHEREAS Range Voting is the most fair system of voting because it lets the candidate who, win, regardless of place on the political spectrum, because the people are not afraid of vote splitting which cannot happen in range voting, and
WHEREAS the Organic Law of 1997 ensures that the Ziu "is elected by universal popular vote by all adult citizens (age 14 and over)", now
THEREFORE be it resolved that
Uréu q'estadra sa:
Alexandreu Gavárþic'h (MC-CRO)
This just something I though up after reading Wiliam Poundstone's very provoking and interesting book, Gaming The Vote. So, you know, let's just kick this around for a while. I am still looking for a good sytem for the Cosa. I will tell everyone when I find one.
Enjoy!
Dréu
WHEREAS a plurality voting system is unfair when there are more than two candidates because it forces all parties towards the center and takes away votes from parties that are more to the right or more to the left as can be seen in the classic lemonade stand example where it was hypothesized that the fairest place for two lemonade vendors ("parties") on the boardwalk of a beach to stand would be one inch away from each other, that way, although on any given day there could be more people on the left or right side, the right guy could draw people ("votes") from the left side if the left guy's line was too long and vice versa. The example continues to explain that a third lemonade stand that opens up all the way on the left will get many fewer customers because he cannot draw from the center or right. This is a perfect analogy to plurality voting, which gives centre parties an unfair advantage, and
WHEREAS other systems like the Borda count are unfair because they leads to a process called "burying," where a voter puts a candidate he doesn't like as much further up the list than a candidate he likes more (but who is his preferred candidates rival) which could actually contribute to that candidate who he didn't like winning, and
WHEREAS Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is used in many countries today is also unfair because in the case that there are three parties (two major, and one minor), and one of the major parties "steals" votes from the minor party, that major party can actually lose the election because they got more votes, and
WHEREAS Range Voting is the most fair system of voting because it lets the candidate who, win, regardless of place on the political spectrum, because the people are not afraid of vote splitting which cannot happen in range voting, and
WHEREAS the Organic Law of 1997 ensures that the Ziu "is elected by universal popular vote by all adult citizens (age 14 and over)", now
THEREFORE be it resolved that
1. Article IV, Section 6 be rewritten to read:Each citizen voting for a senator shall rank all of the senatorial candidates from 0-10, with the instruction that the candidates they like the most should be ranked as a 10, and the candidates they like the least should be ranked as a 0, and all other candidates should be ranked in between. Two or more candidates may be given the same ranking. The Secretary of State is instructed to add up the rankings of each candidate, and whoever has the highest number of "points" will be proclaimed the winner. If a citizen leaves a ranking blank, the Secretary of State is instructed to simply not count that ranking. In the event of a two-way tie there would be a runoff between the two candidates who had the highest number of points. Whoever gets the majority of the vote in the runoff wins the Senate seat. Should the tie be between more than two candidates, the candidates with the highest number of "0" rankings would be removed from the race until there were only two candidates left. If two candidates were tied for the second spot in the majority runoff, the senate seat would be given to the candidate with the least number of "0" rankings. In the unlikely event that there are three candidates that have the least number of "0" rankings, then the candidates with the least number of rankings below five would be given the spots in the runoff, following the same procedure as during the first process of elimination with the number of "0" rankings.
2. Article IV, Section 8 be rewritten to read:If a voter returns more than one ranking per candidate, the first ranking is counted, and the rest are ignored.
Uréu q'estadra sa:
Alexandreu Gavárþic'h (MC-CRO)