If the election follows the model of the 2005 vote, Iraqis will vote for long lists of candidates from the main parties (confronting many unfamiliar names) and there will be no allowance for the direct election of members of the Parliament who would represent a given area or district.
Figure 7 presents an example of the voting scheme.
"They wanted to get away from the model of just voting the party line and doing what the party leadership says," Nye told me during a recent conversation in his Washington office.
When the army corps built the model of the San Francisco Bay to convince the voting population that a particular intervention was dangerous, they were using it for this kind of heuristic purpose.
We present the first model of optimal voting under adversarial noise.
"Yes-No" voting is one alternative model of voting that would open up the electoral process beyond the choice of two major party candidates.
You see, Axcelis, like many companies, had recently adopted the "Pfizer" model of majority by voting, named after one of the first prominent companies to adopt it.
"It's a big part of the model of how the Democratic Party gets the vote out," he said.
When she was voted Model of the Year at the 2007 British Fashion Awards, the Manchester Evening News produced the immortal headline: 'Chippie girl to conquer the world'.
The Digg team isn't putting it this way, but it's clear that this is an experiment to see if users will adopt the Digg model of voting on things to non-breaking news.
