On 09/18/2012 06:18 AM, Andy Jennings wrote:
I have been thinking this for a while, and I would love to see it
implemented for precisely the situation you describe: the legislature,
or even the voters directly, choosing the overall tax rate.
You might want to build in some hysteresis so that t
> Related matter - majority votes for filling number blanks.
>
> Example-
> Percent of GDP for taxes --
> 0 to 100 percent in 1 percent units.
> Each legislator/voter picks a percentage
> Report the votes per percentage.
> Accumulate from 100 downward to get a bare majority of the total votes.
>
>
Divided Majorities - Number Votes Matrix - Left Vote Shifts
Divided Majorities
Standard divided majority problem -
A, B and Z
26 ABZ
25 BAZ
49 Z??
Is A or B the lesser of evils for some Z voters ???
With more choices, both the majority and minority will likely be even more
divided.
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Nonstop minority rule gerrymanders in the U.S.A. since 4 July 1776.
A plurality of the votes in a bare majority of the packed/cracked
gerrymander districts = about 25 percent [or less] indirect minority rule.
Much worse with primary math.
Used to be much, much worse before the 1964 SCOTUS gerry
On 17.9.2012, at 21.08, Richard Fobes wrote:
> On 9/15/2012 3:02 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
>> On 09/15/2012 09:55 AM, Juho Laatu wrote:
>>> On 15.9.2012, at 6.05, Jeffrey O'Neill wrote:
You can also now save Condorcet results in HTML format but still
working on the best graphics
On 9/15/2012 3:02 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
On 09/15/2012 09:55 AM, Juho Laatu wrote:
On 15.9.2012, at 6.05, Jeffrey O'Neill wrote:
You can also now save Condorcet results in HTML format but still
working on the best graphics to visualize Condorcet results.
One solution is to support m
