(11-21-2020, 02:01 PM)37thchamber Wrote: IRV is a decent option. I still think the beatpath method would be better, though, partly because IRV also forces a strict order (edit: and assumes transitive property). When a voter thinks two candidates are equally deserving, they should be allowed to reflect that opinion in their ballot.
I also think limiting the ranking to 3 can have a detrimental effect and could (probably) be mitigated without dramatically increasing the complexity of the computation. I have an exhaustive ballot "simulator" lying around somewhere that I'm fairly sure can be tweaked to use IRV vote reassignment rather than simulating a fresh round of votes. Handles up to ten candidates iirc.
Still, this is good stuff.
If I can get something working to allow more than 3 selections to be ranked, would you consider removing the limit of three?
If you can get me something that will make it easy for GMs to vote and easy for me/whoever is in charge to tabulate it, I'm all for it!
The main reason I'm going with 3 is because it requires the least amount of change on the backend for me putting the Photoshop data sets together in python.