User:RalphInOttawa

I was a computer programmer. I've been retired for almost 15 years. Beside working for a living, I ran for political office twice, losing on October 25 both times. As a reult of losing the first time, 30 years ago, I became very interested in having a better voting system for electing representation. The systems out there all seemed to have problems. I came across the Condorcet methods demonstrator on a Robla webpage back in 1999(?). After many years of trying to find or make a perfect voting system, I gave up. Last winter (January 2023), there was some irritating election result, or someone's smart comments ... and I got to thinking that I needed to write my old ideas of fairness into a step by step process to fix IRV before I was too old to remember. I came up with my MIRV process (Multiple Instant Runoff Voting) on paper. It was hard to explain and boring to talk about. I was fortunate to have a Chrome Book and noticed I could use Google Sheets for free. I decided to give it try. No database. Just columns and rows. Now, it's October, and I think I've made something different, something new. Too complicated? Perhaps. I would argue, it's a spreadsheet. People trust spreadsheets. It's all there. Simple arithmetic and lots and lots of simple logic.

Link to MIRV demo R: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D1Aeoy3Y17gcnCyVx6AlGEIYneDidRpqn5a-lClC66I/edit#gid=664199959

Feel free to put in your votes and have a look at your results.

As a shared link, we will all see what's going on. And we might compete for the input. Threrefore, to do your testing, you may want to make your entire set of votes on your own 2 column spreadsheet, copy and paste into the Voting sheet, and zip over to the Report sheet to print a pdf of the results before anyone else can wreck your input. You should also replace the Tiebreaks sheet values too, which means you will want to copy and paste from a 10 column spreadsheet, specifically taylored to the test you are doing.