I wanted to add that if STV (3-5 seats) with Droop Quota were used
consistently across the US that there'd be 50 states forming the
super-districts and so if there were biases due to gerrymandering some of
them would cancel out...
Also, even though this system is not terribly 3rd party friendly, i
On 02/04/2012 06:14 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
On 2/4/12 4:12 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
On 02/04/2012 06:47 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
On 2/3/12 11:06 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
No, he's saying that when the CW and the true, honest utility winner
differ, the latter is bet
On 02/04/2012 01:07 AM, Kevin Venzke wrote:
Personally I don't understand why one would want to spend time on a
method that you have to defend by saying "it might work anyway," even
if as built the incentives are wrong.
I don't know if you're replying to me, but it seems to me that any
determi
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Bryan Mills wrote:
> Now, despite a 50/50 natural split, the rural party has a 60% supermajority.
> And, of course, if you draw the district lines differently you can do the
> same thing for the urban party.
This was attempted in Ireland, look up Tullymander.
The
I believe this topic needs more thought.
Ability to do accurate recounts should be considered essential.
Sooner or later counters will be tempted to "adjust" counts to help
achieve desired wins - we should consider it unacceptable to tempt
them by letting them hide evidence of such.
Reco
FPTP brings us runoffs because they have a need - their voters can
like more than one but cannot vote for more than one in any election.
Majority makes sense for them and they can force that by selecting
among only two in a runoff.
Runoffs are expensive for all involved, so it is not clear
2012/2/5 Kevin Venzke
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> *De :* Jameson Quinn
> *À :* electionscie...@googlegroups.com
> *Cc :* EM
> *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 3 février 2012 22h06
> *Objet :* Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet
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> Condorcet systems fundamentally try to maximize t