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  @Keith said in S-TM: If there was two candidates supported by the largest bloc of about 40% of the voters they would still fight with eachother. Yes, but they would still both be supported by that 40% because they both don't want to do things that make them lose that block. Positive the fact that they try to have the block bigger and bigger, but if the block is for example "Republican", it will remain "Republican" (as well as the 2 candidates who then end up in the automatic runoff). Also, falling back to score is not something I would view as a problem The problem is that if you end up in Score Voting then you might as well use Score Voting from the start, which is simpler (but has its downsides).
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  I'm not sure why we can't have proxy representation; it seems to me to give the people more power than merely filling seats does. But anyway, assuming proxy is off the table, what is the most important criterion for choosing among proportional voting systems?
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  So I noticed a discrepancy while reproducing these statistically. Vote-for-1 tends to be too high, and Vote-for-(n-1) tends to be too low: (Vote-for-(n-1) is essentially Anti-plurality voting. ) These should be the same, according to him: It is interesting to observe that the vote-for-k and vote-for-(n-k) voting systems are equally effective. Plotting just those two, it seems to just be a consequence of Weber calculating for infinite voters vs me simulating finite numbers of voters: 10 voters, 100,000 iterations: 100 voters, 100,000 iterations: 1,000 voters, 100,000 iterations: 100,000 voters, 100,000 iterations (took 3 hours): (Standard and Vote-for-1 are the same thing, but implemented differently, so I was plotting both to make sure there wasn't a bug in one.) I don't really understand why this happens, but good to keep in mind that number of voters does matter in these kinds of simulations.
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  @Marylander: The submitted paper was describing a new collective choice procedure that can be thought of as a vote-moderated discussion, so yes, it would have been in the context of voting methods. Given that a week has gone by with no one supplying a reference for "independence of eliminated alternatives", I'm just going to proceed as if the editor meant Arrow's IIA.