notes-groupDecisionMaking-votingMethods-stochasticPostselection

stochastic postselection

adds cloneproofness to any method (eliminates 'splitting the vote'/'spoilers')

oddball candidates

Implementation detail: if the stochastic selection was done by a central authority generating a random number, this might be prone to corruption. Better might be to ask each candidate to give an arbitrary integer in a sealed envelope. Once all envelopes are received, they are opened in public and summed, producing some integer S. Then, if a random positive integer less than N is desired, we take S mod N.

todo reword:

Observe that the stochasticity in round C means that if most voters' favorite candidates tend to be those who are bad at mass campaigning, then most of the seats assigned in round C will tend to go to candidates who are bad at mass campaigning, even if no such candidate is a favorite of a large number of voters.