For the Language Geeks
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[Continuing discussion from: https://www.votingtheory.org/forum/topic/130/star-like-method-reverse-star/2]
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@Toby-Pereira said in STAR-like method ("reverse STAR"?):
Copeland
Which leads down a rabbit-hole all the way back to the middle ages and writings in Latin. https://d-nb.info/1212798317/34 talks about the sources and gives text and translations in PDF, and leads to https://www.math.uni-augsburg.de/htdocs/emeriti/pukelsheim/llull/ , which gives the text and translations as web pages.
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Omnes responderint et eligerint prout eis uidebitur fiat vnus punctus in littera attribuata illi persone que plures uoces habuerit.
All shall respond, and shall elect as it appears to them. A dot is placed by the letter assigned to the person who has the most votes.
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Because early work in the voting-systems field was recorded in Latin at a time when Latin served somewhat as an international language, we who write on this subject should once in a while refer back to the most relevant expressions to this field in that language. Here's my attempt to translate "voting systems" in accusative:
artēs ēligendī
Some people might want to translate "systems" as systēmata. However, Llull used (in singular) ars. And we should follow Llull, the pioneer of our field.