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Schulze has a very nice geometric interpretation, but I should get off my ass and get the working paper ready to be released first.
by ulucs 6y ago
Schulze has a very nice geometric interpretation, but I should get off my ass and get the working paper ready to be released first.
- godelski 6y agoLet's be real: plurality is trivial, approval is dead simple, score is easy, IRV is so so, Schulze is complex. That is, in determining the winner. In plurality you just count the number of votes. Largest number wins. max(sum(votes) In approval you just count the number of approvals. Candidate with the most approval wins. (max(sum of columns(votes)) Score you actually have to create a matrix! IRV you have recursion! Schulze you have both and graph theory! I just don't see the appeal. Sure, it has a slightly better VSE than STAR if everyone is voting 100% honestly (that condition is a key part!) but it just isn't appealing when you consider other criteria. Especially when we talk about simplicity. Approval is essentially trivial but also has a lot of other criteria going for it. How much does VSE matter? Especially if you still aren't combating spoilers (I'll give you that Schulze does better than IRV at spoilers).
- jabl 6y agoCome on, just look at the wikipedia page for the Schultze method. There are matrices, graphs, and stuff. That might be fine for a technical community like Debian, but for a society filled with average Joes and Janes, not so much. Democracy needs trust, including the average person being able to understand how something as fundamental as voting works. That's one of the main reasons my favorite is approval voting.