I’m with
@avromie7 . It’s actually brilliant and covers basically all the bases, with all of the problems straight voting presents, while simplifying all of the political considerations involved in who you choose to vote for. Unlike regular voting, you don’t need to think about who’s more likely to win, and where your votes are most likely to count/be wasted. Just rank your candidates in your actual order of choice and your will will be reflected to maximum impact.
To learn more about this type of matchmaking algorithm, check out
Who Gets What- and Why by Nobel laureate Alvin E. Roth. This is one of my all time favorite books, because of its brilliance and simplicity (after a fashion). I can’t recommend it enough.
In the book, he explains how he and others came up with just such an algorithm to help match kidney donors to the perfect recipients, allow public school students to apply to their true school of choice without sacrificing their chance of getting accepted to a more realistic option, and to match graduate students to jobs without needing to sacrifice their best option for their most realistic option.
