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So, it seems as though I relied too much on [[w:Cunningham's law|Cunningham's law]] to ask my implied question, so I'll make it explicit: in which public discussion forum has [[Vote Unitarity]] been vetted? Can you provide a link to the discussion? -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 04:17, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

 

 

: Anyway, to the task at hand. Much of the early development of the idea was done with [https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~bwbecker/ Byron Becker] where we debated with a few others about how to solve issues with his system [http://localpr.ca/basics/index.html local PR]. This was part of the deliberation process for the BC referendum. Once that group was clear that I had something I went to [[Warren Smith]] who at first did not believe that such a system could work and then later admitted it did and generalized it. He called his generalization 'the corner trick' referring to how when he invented Harmonic Voting his derivations assumed a smooth function. The generalization he invented contained Harmonic voting and an Optimal version I made with my more restrictive Vote Unitarity constraint. He circulated this discovery to Forest Simmons and Toby Pereira. He liked the general version and spent some time trying to come up with a better constraint than vote unitarity. I proved that vote unitarity in this case was equivalent to Cauchy's functional equation for mapping Utility to score and I was happy with that since I would think this should be a natural constraint on Utility. From there I reached out to Sara Wolk who formed a committee to determine the best Cardinal multiwinner system. The committee contained Jameson Quinn who advocated for [[Allocated Score]] and parker friedland who invented [[Sequential Monroe]]. Clay Shentrup and David Hinds where also major contributors. Many systems and criteria were debated on a private Loomio forum. Nobody ever doubted that Vote Unitarity was well defined but some argued that it was not needed. This seems fair as many also make similar arguments about Proportional Representation. Warren did not join the group but I kept him up to date with any discoveries.