[Discuss] In-game poll

[Tom]

Message from Morgan Evans, received on 04. Dec 2005 at 06:26:
>    Actually, to be honest, while the BM system of voting is slightly better
>    than 'normal' voting, it isn't better by much. The best voting system that
>    I know of is the system used by the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts
>     (USA), and also by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. I'm not sure
>    of the exact name of it, but it involves numbering your choices in order
>    that you wish to vote for. If your first choice does not have enough
>    votes, then your full vote goes to your next choice, and so on.

BM uses a variant of the Borda count system.

The wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_systems
tells you advantages and disadvantages of voting systems.

The points where Borda count falls short are all acceptable within the
context of BM, IMHO:

Majority - ok because it fails because a small majority will not win
if strongly disliked by everyone else. For BM, that is a good feature
because you can't become ruler with 51% of the realm strongly behind
you and 49% of the realm hating you.

Condorcet - just barely, but acceptable especially seen that all voting
systems that succeed here fail in more criticial points.

IA - I'm not entirely sure about this but I _believe_ that I have
largely eliminated the existend of irrelevant alternatives by limiting
the ballot to three slots. I can't mathematically prove it, though.

Clone - I actually consider this a feature, not a bug. It makes
internal politics more interesting.



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