Greetings.

last19digitsofpi

Greetings citizens of Earth. We come in peace.

I am a rogue mathematician trying to hold on to moral courage in a strange world. I'm interested in researching proportional voting methods. Where can I help?

(OK, I admit I'm a little bit spooked by @Sass' impassioned calls for precinct summability in high-profile elections. But there might still be hope?)

@last19digitsofpi This is a thread I made for the nonpartisan PR method I'm most excited about right now https://www.votingtheory.org/forum/topic/240/threshold-mes/ and relevant electowiki here https://electowiki.org/wiki/Threshold_Equal_Approval (although I know that page is kind of sparse). Feedback welcome.

There are a number of good papers on PR but this one is a good place to start since it is mostly a survey and covers a lot of the other relevant results all in one spot https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01795

If it's any consolation, I do not share @Sass's concerns about precinct summability's importance for election security. But, of course, opinions will vary.

rob

@last19digitsofpi Hey Last19digitsofpi. (8473645284273355832 if I remember correctly?)

Welcome. Glad you come in peace. Peace is good, so don't be stirring the shit.

Kidding. Precinct summability has some practical value I suppose, but other things are far more important. I'm not all that into PR but others obviously are. (I tend to think that improving single winner methods is a lower hanging fruit, at least in the US)

My big emphasis is "voting on voting methods" (eat our own dogfood, create consensus, etc) and creating useful Codepens for tabulating and visualizing. So if you know javascript, then double-welcome!