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Re: Generalizations...
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Bram Cohen
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Apr 15, 2002 23:24 PDT
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Bram Cohen wrote:
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property that it wouldn't be necessary to actually remember all votes,
merely the number of times each ordered triplet (A, B, C) has appeared in
some ballot in that order thus far. This allows for vote collation, the
source of most of first past the post's logistical advantages, and also a
good technique for increasing voter privacy.
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I should probably clarify a bit - my current implementation floors vote
count at zero, to keep them from ever going negative. This is an uncommon
enough occurence that it's on okay voting algorithm even without it, but
hopefully switching to ranked pairs will render the whole issue moot.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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