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Delegating vote decision-making


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joewalpOct 13, 2006 12:50pm
Have any of you, perchance, come across models or experiments in which citizens delegate research and decision-making associated with voting to an expert system or other recommendation engine?

Many voters who follow the recommendations of a political party, a religious organization, a lobby organization, etc. already delegate, of course. What I'm envisioning is a more collaborative system where a participant is forced to answer questions that characterize stances and priorities on the range of issues likely to be in play during terms of offices in contention. After answering questions, the participant receives voting recommendations and has opportunity to probe justifications for those recommendations. And a participant could inform the recommendation engine by taking issue with those justifications.

This idea cannot be new, so I'm interested in its background. I'd be particularly interested in any related papers in game theory or expert system design.

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Thomas-JeffersonOct 22, 2006 12:16pm
vote-smart.org/index.htm [vote-smart.org/index.htm]

Its not exactly what you described, but its in that direction, I think...

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joewalpOct 24, 2006 2:24am
Yes, the information there could inform the recommendation system. It notably lacks tools for comparing candidates side-by-side. I wonder what checks they have in place to preserve impartiality outside the NPAT [1].

[1]
vote-smart.org/npat_about.php [vote-smart.org/npat_about.php]

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Thomas-JeffersonOct 24, 2006 3:52am
For my wife and I, vote smart provides all we need, since we're both single-issue voters. She votes for candidates who are pro-life, and I vote for candidates who support gun rights... strangely enough their often the same ;)

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DickBeldinNov 10, 2007 6:52am
Are our choices static? I expect that we change our minds on many issues where the information we have is limited. This kind of facility would encourage that bugaboo of little minds, consistency. However, as new evidence appears, we would have to discipline ourselves to include it in the model. Asked about what would be most beneficial to me and my family would get a different response when I consider the world at large. I can't identify with such a large and diverse group.

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Thomas-JeffersonDec 13, 2007 12:51pm
This was accurate for me:

vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html [vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html]

see also:

politicalcompass.org [politicalcompass.org]


Delegating vote decision-making

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