Jedi Day

[gfish]

May the Fourth be with you!

I get the stupidest grin whenever I say that. And I've been saying it a lot today.

Also, watching a room filled with AI profs and grads discuss the Single Transferable Vote referendum here in BC was much fun. Encouragingly, they were almost unanimously in favor of it, they just had a lot of interesting implications and boundary conditions to pick apart. I don't think anyone with BC voting privileges who reads this journal isn't already a supporter, but in case I'm missing someone, please let me proselytize at you in person! It's killing me that I can't vote for it myself.

Comments

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

The ballots for all of these methods are the same, right? I have to wonder if the results were tabulated, and *all* these methods were applied to the results, if the winners would change any... Or how hard would Murphy have to work in order to generate a controversial result?

(yes, I know we'd all have to agree on the same method before trying it, just the differences aren't all that obvious to me.)

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

No, Plurality (the usual system) is to pick one candidate, Approval is yes or no on each candidate, while for IRV and Condorcet methods, the voter ranks the candidates.

Part of the appeal of Approval is that it's easy to adapt from Plurality. It's just Plurality except that you can vote for more than one candidate.