Proposal: Instant Runoff - Just Add Water
If there is a rule named “Ranked Choice”, add the following text to it:
There is a publicly-tracked Winning Plan, which is either empty or the name of a Drafter’s Plan, defaulting to empty.
If the Winning Plan is empty, and a quorum of Drafters have a Ballot that has a value, and no Drafter has changed their Ballot in the past 48 hours, and the Supervisor has not performed an Instant Runoff within the past 48 hours, the Supervisor should perform an Instant Runoff, which is an atomic action with the following numbered steps:
# Privately track a copy of each Drafter’s Ballot. These privately-tracked copies are considered the Runoff Ballots for this instance of Instant Runoff.
# For each Drafter’s Plan, calculate that Plan’s Top Pick as the number of Runoff Ballots in which that Plan is allocated a 1.
# If there is a single Plan with a Top Pick at least equal to a quorum of Drafters, set the Winning Plan to that Plan and skip to the last step in this atomic action.
# If there are no Plans with a Top Pick of at least 1, skip to the last step in this atomic action.
# Select the Plans with the lowest Top Picks among all Plans as the Losers.
# For each Loser, remove it from each Runoff Ballot.
# For each Runoff Ballot, re-allocate the whole numbers in that Runoff Ballot such that the order of the Plans in that Runoff Ballot does not change, but the whole numbers allocated to each Plan in that Runoff Ballot are contiguous starting at 1.
# Go to step 2.
# Make a Story Post stating the contents of the Winning Plan, and if the Winning Plan is not empty, the Drafter who authored that Plan.If the Winning Plan is not empty, the Drafter who is the author of the Plan named in the Winning Plan has achieved victory.
I think I got the algorithm correct, but double check and make sure that I did. I’ll revise if not.
DoomedIdeas: he/him
Wouldn’t this have an issue wherein Plan A could be everyone’s second choice, and Plan B is dead last except for one player who puts it as their top choice, meaning Plan A gets out before Plan B despite being more universally popular?