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I had assumed when reading this that the voting credit budget would be allocated per question rather than across the entire ballot. However I don't think the ar

• thechao 5y ago
  I was confused by GP's post, as well! I have only seen quadratic voting used to decide amongst non-binary questions: positions with at least 3 (or more) possible outcomes. It seems weird to mix voting across a bunch of different issues.
  • ComputerGuru 5y ago
    Here’s a demo that reveals what I’m talking about: https://www.economist.com/interactive/2021/12/18/quadratic-voting https://www.economist.com/interactive/2021/12/18/quadratic-v... Also, mathematically a question with > 2 choices isn’t ultimately that different from a ballot with multiple binary questions. You can imagine my scenario with credits allocated to a single non-binary question as well, just substitute “poisonous question” with “poisonous option/individual” (though it is harder for me to demonstrate with non-partisan or bi-partisan examples). Edit: Some plausible examples for distributing credits across issues include multiple open seats and top x contenders get them (so n binary yes/no “do you want x to have a seat?” questions), a ballot to determine which candidate you’re most likely to align with based off their yes/no stance on multiple questions (which is a problem if anyone’s stance is boiled down to a simple yes/no but that’s unfortunately the state of politics today with no shades of grey), etc.