I have a preference for the Schulze method as well, since it is generally superior to many other methods, even if somewhat opaque in its mechanism. Examining the comparisons at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_table

should give an indication of its strengths.

The only problem is likely to be finding a good implementation in software. There is a refinement of Schulze described at the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_STV which has a python implementation at https://github.com/bradbeattie/python-vote-core/blob/master/pyvotecore/schulze_stv.py but more interestingly, an online voting service at https://modernballots.com/

Thoughts?
--
Doug


On 17 September 2012 23:29, Katie Chan <ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:
On 17/09/2012 23:03, James Farrar wrote:
Certainly my sense of the various discussions over the past 18 months is
that there's near-consensus on STV as the best alternative to the
current system. I intend to draft a motion with new election rules for
STV; if anyone has other systems they'd like to put forward I'll be
happy to draft election rules for them.

Well, the WMF use the Schulze method [1] for its board election so that could be considered as an option.

KTC

[1]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method>

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