Problems, problems, problems.

I’ve been running some election simulations for the Chamber of Trustees and I think I need to rethink the election mechanism for this branch of Congress.  The CoT is meant to be semi-democratic, but the guaranteed-minority system isn’t working as I’d hope and is give too undemocratic of results.  In all the simulations run so far using random number generators, no party gets a majority; the top three parties each get a Trustee, and the third place party is significantly smaller than the other two parties resulting in these third-parties having far too much power for their size.

Perhaps my methodology for simulating these elections is flawed.

So, quick…to the Bat-Statistical Textbook!

 

UPDATE 01-11-11

Turns out that the true random number generator I was using isn’t really that random after all.  Looks like I’ll have to do it the old fashioned way:  polyhedral dice.  Time to break out the old AD&D stuff from the attic.  And since that will take forever, I’m going to move on to reforming the Senate and come back to the Chamber later.