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    Proportional STAR Voting isn't STAR at all.

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    • Democrates
      Democrates last edited by Democrates

      Proportional STAR Voting / Allocated Score Voting doesn't have STAR Voting in it at all. It just chooses the highest scoring candidate and then reweighs the ballots proportionally for the next round and then chooses the highest scoring candidate in that round until all seats are filled. True Proportional STAR Voting would have an Automatic one-on-one Runoff after every round.

      I made a Python program that let's you hold a Proportional STAR election with automatic one-on-one runoffs after each round. I made this because I thought Proportional STAR the way the Equal Vote Coalition explained it didn't sound like it had STAR at all and sounded more like it was just Proportional Score Voting because it just did Score elections after every round and no Score Then Automatic Runoff. The program is here: https://github.com/Democrates1776/True-Proportional-STAR-Voting-with-1on1-Runoffs

      It works by taking the top two scored candidates every round and rewarding them the weight each voter that scored them higher has in the runoff. This way everyone gets proportional representation in the runoff. I thought it would be best to make sure every winning candidate had majority support from their proportion that elected them.

      I also made programs that lets you have "regular" Proportional STAR elections that have no runoffs where the highest scored candidate in a round wins a seat if that still sounds like the way to go: https://github.com/Democrates1776/Regular-Proportional-STAR-Voting-without-1on1-Runoffs

      I made programs for Hare Quota and Droop Quota each.

      I also included a program that lets you make a set of randomly generated scored ballots that you can enter so that you can play with voting programs and see how the outcome is affected.

      Let me know if this is good or if there's any way I can improve upon these or if it was even work the effort to make. I'd like to see Proportional STAR elections implemented on https://star.vote/. You could just add a button next to all the elections already there that let's you see the results if there was a PR or multi-winner (Bloc) election with however many seats you want.

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        Jack Waugh last edited by

        I'm not smart enough to argue much about what makes good Proportional Representation, but I agree that the system that the STAR Voting organization is promoting as STAR PR does not meet the definition in the acronym STAR.

        Approval-ordered Llull (letter grades) [10], Score // Llull [9], Score, STAR, Approval, other rated Condorcet [8]; equal-ranked Condorcet [4]; strictly-ranked Condorcet [3]; everything else [0].

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          Jack Waugh last edited by

          My advocacy (at least, tentatively) for legislatures is Liquid Democracy.

          Approval-ordered Llull (letter grades) [10], Score // Llull [9], Score, STAR, Approval, other rated Condorcet [8]; equal-ranked Condorcet [4]; strictly-ranked Condorcet [3]; everything else [0].

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          • Democrates
            Democrates @Jack Waugh last edited by

            @jack-waugh So it would basically be direct democracy for everything but you can delegate your vote to a friend. Would be nice. What do you say to people who go "but mob rule!!"?

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              Jack Waugh @Democrates last edited by

              @democrates I would ask them what they mean by "mob rule". How could it be detected, and why is it a problem.

              Approval-ordered Llull (letter grades) [10], Score // Llull [9], Score, STAR, Approval, other rated Condorcet [8]; equal-ranked Condorcet [4]; strictly-ranked Condorcet [3]; everything else [0].

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