[ga] Voting rules: reinventing the wheel

[Weisberg <weisberg@texoma.net>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> At 01:14 22.06.2000 -0400, George Kougias wrote:
> >If after three or four votes, no candidate has a
> >majority of 2/3 of the vote then the candidate with the majority of
> >votes wins the seat.
>
> note that with a week per vote, you have a system that uses approximately a
> month to make a decision.
> Robert's Rules were written for the case where you don't let the people out
> of the room until the votes have converged.

Question:

Are we working on a problem for which there is an already invented wheel?

What is your analysis of Instant Run-off Voting (IRV)?




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