One crux here is what the purpose of the donation election is. My take is that it is in significant part an information-gathering device, and that your PR proposal would reduce that value. Under at least pure PR, a rational voter will likely concentrate all their votes on a single org. We would learn almost nothing about voter preferences beyond their top choice.
IIRC, I suggested allocating monies using a variety of decision rules, of which PR-with-threshold would probably be one. Adding some PR element should reduce an information problem with the 2023 design—voters weren’t motivated to ponder the merits of any org unless they believed it might end up in the top three.
One crux here is what the purpose of the donation election is. My take is that it is in significant part an information-gathering device, and that your PR proposal would reduce that value. Under at least pure PR, a rational voter will likely concentrate all their votes on a single org. We would learn almost nothing about voter preferences beyond their top choice.
IIRC, I suggested allocating monies using a variety of decision rules, of which PR-with-threshold would probably be one. Adding some PR element should reduce an information problem with the 2023 design—voters weren’t motivated to ponder the merits of any org unless they believed it might end up in the top three.