Note: this system is subject to change in the next week (Iâm adding this provision in case someone finds obvious improvements or fundamental issues).
Is there a name for this voting system? Has it been studied before?
(Why does every important real-world election end up using ad-hoc voting systems invented by non-experts, while all the thoroughly-studied and high-quality vetted voting systems molder away in academic papers? đ€Š)
There is a whole field of research dedicated to this topic, and itâs ostensibly a branch of EA. Why not use a system thatâs been studied and proven to have good properties?
âClassical ranked-choice votingâ is a pretty poor voting system, suffering from vote-splitting, spoiler effect, center-squeeze effect, etc. so Iâm skeptical of anything based on it. The use of cardinal ratings and summing all votersâ ratings simultaneously probably makes yours better, making it more similar to Baldwinâs Method, for instance, but does the normalization step cause any similar problems?
Also, whatâs the point of limiting to 3 winners? Why not just distribute the donations proportionally?
Is there a name for this voting system? Has it been studied before?
(Why does every important real-world election end up using ad-hoc voting systems invented by non-experts, while all the thoroughly-studied and high-quality vetted voting systems molder away in academic papers? đ€Š)
There is a whole field of research dedicated to this topic, and itâs ostensibly a branch of EA. Why not use a system thatâs been studied and proven to have good properties?
âClassical ranked-choice votingâ is a pretty poor voting system, suffering from vote-splitting, spoiler effect, center-squeeze effect, etc. so Iâm skeptical of anything based on it. The use of cardinal ratings and summing all votersâ ratings simultaneously probably makes yours better, making it more similar to Baldwinâs Method, for instance, but does the normalization step cause any similar problems?
Also, whatâs the point of limiting to 3 winners? Why not just distribute the donations proportionally?