https://t.me/EOSproject/1561416
Aarin Hagerty, [30.10.20 14:48]
[In reply to Luka Perrrcic]
I would like to provide some historical context regarding this discussion of DPoS voting mechanisms.
BitShares ended up with an approval voting system (which one can think of as 1 token infinity votes) for voting for BP (block producer) candidates which then ranked them by approval vote and selected the top N as the set of active block producers. I don't remember the exact series of events and reasoning that led to that decision, but I am sure most of it can be found on the old BitSharesTalk forum (e.g. https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=5205.0).
There are some advantages of an approval voting system over cumulative voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_voting), which one can basically think of as 1 token 1 divisible vote, particularly in the case of single winner elections. For example it passes the favorite betrayal criterion (https://electowiki.org/wiki/Favorite_betrayal_criterion) whereas cu