Posts made by Democrates

@cfrank Yeah, they really need to fix that on the star.vote website. The alphabet is not a good way to determine elections! XD

@cfrank I think we have a situation where Joe Biden beats Jill Stein, Jill Stein beats Marianne Williamson, and Marianne Williamson beats Joe Biden. Kind of a rock, paper, scissors scenario. Though, that shouldn't matter in this situation because if Marianne Williamson beats Joe Biden, then she goes to 2nd place and Joe Biden is 3rd, and then Jill Stein wins the election because she is tied with Marianne Williamson in runoff votes, but has a higher score.

@cfrank There was no Condorcet winner.

I found a mock election on star.vote , and 2nd place scores were tied between Joe Biden and Marianne Williamson. The website defaulted to Joe Biden, I believe because he was 1st in alphabetical order. Shouldn't 2nd place have gone to Marianne Williamson, since she beats Joe Biden in a runoff?
The election is here https://star.vote/starvotedec23/ .

@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!!"?

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.