Matrices… algorithms… I think these are dangerous terms when it comes to counting votes for public election…
(doens’t quite know where to stand on the issue, but doesn’t trust matrices)
How would any of these voting systems apply to voting on policies instead of people? For instance in a large committee, or whole body, would it make sense to have various proposals, essentially combinations of amdenments that have been offered, on an approval ballot? Cross off the mix you don’t like? You could have each amendment up for approval or pairwise showdown, but that could get crazily complicated in pairwise voting. Or two contradictory amendments could get approved in approval voting, so it seems the approval needs to be of a mix of amendments.
Maybe this doesn’t matter as people have a longer period of time to vote up or down on a variety of amendments?
Majority voting works fine for elections with two possibilities, such as whether to pass an amendment.