Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread bql
Yum! Tastes like chicken. On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > Free-range voting? Brian Olson http://bolson.org/ election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
Free-range voting? -- /Jonathan Lundell. election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] On Naming and Advocacy

2006-06-16 Thread bql
"free voting" does indeed have nice connotations in the free-as-in-freedom way. Free can also mean unrestricted and unregulated and someone specially cynical might take that to mean we're free to stuff the ballot box. :-/ Outside this list, I've been plugging "rankings and ratings ballots" as t

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread Dave Ketchum
My comments are about computers and programs; not about this election method. On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:49:51 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anthony O'Neal wrote: > ... > >>The sequential method is vulnerable to vote management and introduces >>tactical voting into it. >> > > The non-sequenti

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread raphfrk
Anthony O'Neal wrote: > > > > Tactical voting works against that. If people tactical vote, then they > > get > > > > no method to express their actual desired. > > > > > > I don't think you understand the method. It was a very short description, > but PAV is not vulnerable to tactical voting a

Re: [EM] IRV vs Condorcet - a challenge

2006-06-16 Thread Jan Kok
On 6/13/06, Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:36:45 -0500 Dan Bishop wrote: > > > Dave Ketchum wrote: > > > >> Permitting equal ranking for multiple candidates. Desirable for > >>pleasing those who call Approval desirable; doable with Condorcet, though > >>there

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread Anthony O'Neal
On 6/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Anthony O'Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write: > And about the proportional range system I talked about earlier, theworkings> of the system is obvious. Under PAV rules, you assume that candidatesgive 1> point to an outcome for having one approved

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread raphfrk
Anthony O'Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write: > And about the proportional range system I talked about earlier, the workings > of the system is obvious. Under PAV rules, you assume that candidates give 1 > point to an outcome for having one approved of candidate, 1/3 for the second > approved of can