Bart Ingles bartman-at-netgate.net |EMlist| wrote:
Seems to me it's Russ's web site. If he wants collaborators or feedback, he certainly knows where to find them. I think most of us would be willing to review and comment on anything on the site, or any proposed changes to it.
Bart
I welcome corrections of any errors at http://ElectionMethods.org. Other feedback is welcome too, although I obviously cannot guarantee that I will act on it.
By the way, I designed the site myself, but I am not a professional graphic artist or webpage designer. I like it, but others apparently consider it hideous. In any case, I consider it noteworthy that I did it all with standard HTML and no fancy design tools (just a lot of experimentation).
When Mike and I started out, Rob Lanphier was also interested in participating. I even came up with a name for our group: the Election Methods Education and Research Group (EMERG). I thought it was a nice acronym, although it's already in use in another domain (as google will tell you).
Well, Rob thought I was wielding too much control and he dropped out very early. He had sent me an article on Arrow's theorem, and I completely rewrote it, which he didn't appreciate. Now that Mike has dropped out too, there's not much of a "group" left.
I am currently undecided about what to do with the site. I don't really want to spend a lot of time on it. I understand that Election methods are a very interesting theoretical topic, but from a practical standpoint I think it all really boils down to stopping IRV and getting Approval adopted. Condorcet is out of the question for public elections for the foreseeable future.
Also, I am considering pursuing another advocacy endeavor involving nuclear power. As explained at http://RussP.org/nucpower.htm, I believe that the abandonment of nuclear power by the US a couple of decades ago was based on incredible ignorance and is causing 40,000 Americans to die needlessly every year of lung disease (among several other major problems it is causing). I am considering co-authoring a book on the topic, which would leave me with approximately zero time for election methods.
Given all that, I am willing to consider handing over control of the domain to an election-methods expert who agrees, more or less, with the current position of the site and likes the basic layout but would like to develop it further. If anyone is interested, please contact me. Thanks.
Russ Paielli
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