Hi All,
I've just finished enough of a new website SerialApprovalVoteElection.org that I would like some direction on what should go in next. It highlights SAVE (obviously) but also is meant to show how one might use a framework to look at different voting systems and how that could resolve various debates about voting systems.
At the moment the site has eight simulations: tournaments, preference profiles, spatial models, an IRV exploration using Voronoi diagrams, a simple introduction to SAVE, a model for exploring different voting metrics used by a voter to rank motions, a fairly complicated look at aggregating voter preferences to find the best possible outcome for an electorate, and a more complete SAVE explorable (Explorable Explanations) showing how voter actions drive the result.
This all grew out of the difficulty of explaining SAVE without visuals. I think the folks here were interested in SAVE in the abstract, but couldn't really get a sense of it. I'm now trying again, only this time I'm giving you all something to play with.
The site is far from complete, but I'm feeling more and more pressure to get something out where it can be explored by others.
If you can, please take a look. And let me (and everyone else) know what you think in this thread. At the very least, it points to a way of comparing different voting systems in an automated fashion, with a real "best outcome" for comparison.
As an aside, I originally intended to put a number of other voting systems up for comparison, but I wanted to focus on SAVE and comparing results from an iterative system like SAVE to any single-round system just isn't fair. The architecture is still capable of doing the comparisons, but that isn't my highest priority.
So please have a look, maybe enjoy it a bit, and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Best Wishes,
--tec
