I just thought of a interesting voting system, basically its STV, but mixed in a unique manner with open list PR, that sounds unusual im not gonna deny, but hear me out, basically a open list PR election, which party lists can be formed, and their members are picked via STV with voters being able to vote across party lines, but independent candidates are also allowed, although they won't have the benefit of being tied to a list, the winners are the Droop quota winners, except that a party list is entitled to a equal number of seats that the entire party won, regardless of their individual candidates performance.

Sort of. The public doesn't need to look at a preference matrix to be able to understand the results, but precincts will still report them publicly so us voting nerds can do our analysis.

Okay, so in a sentence, here's the method:

Among the candidates who tie for winning the most head-to-head matchups, elect the candidate with the best average rank.

Let me break that down a bit more by showing you the working ballot language I (and others) have come up with so far.

• Rank as many candidates as you would like.
• You are free to rank multiple candidates equally.
• Skipped ranks are simply ignored and will neither hurt nor help your vote.
• Ranked candidates are considered better than candidates left unranked.

<candidates and rankings>

• Candidates are compared in one-on-one matchups against every other candidate. In most elections, a single candidate will be preferred over all others, in which case that candidate is elected.
• Otherwise, all the candidates who tie for having won the most matchups become finalists; all other candidates are eliminated.
• For each finalist, subtract the number of times they lost to each other finalist from the number of times they beat each other finalist. The finalist with the highest total difference is elected.

To clarify, "best average rank" (tournament-style Borda) is mathematically identical to the margins process described. “Best average rank” is shorter and sweeter for sure, but here’s what I fear:

An example ballot from a given voter:
1st: A
2nd: blank
3rd: blank
4th: blank
5th: B
6th: blank
.
.
.
Nth: blank

In the math, we treat that as:
1st: A
2nd: B
3rd: all other candidates tied

which is mathematically equivalent, but clearly not what the voter expressed. Even with the explicit instruction that ”Skipped ranks are simply ignored and will neither hurt nor help your vote.”, the phrase "Best average rank” will cause many voters to construe ranks as scores. The ballot language needs to clearly convey that the focus is simply on candidates being ranked higher or lower than each other and that the magnitude (greater than 0) of the distance between their ranks is irrelevant.

As you can see, there's quite the range of how descriptive the ballot language can get. I'm down to keep working on ballot language; I want to have several different version and do actual field testing with the different descriptions to find the best one

How to present the

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "