Re: [EM] Range voting, zero-info strategy simulation (Dave)

2006-11-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:14 AM 11/1/2006, Dave Ketchum wrote: >A normal election is usually not close enough to a tie for what ONE voter >does to make a difference. If, generally, the collection of voters that >consider A and B tolerable vote your strategy, A and B can tie; if each >who has a clear preference votes

Re: [EM] RE : Ranked Preference benefits

2006-11-03 Thread Chris Benham
Juho, > You mentioned "strongest indicated preference gap" as the approval > cut. How about defining it dynamically so that one would find the > strongest preference relation that still has non-eliminated > candidates at both sides of it? (like in RP) CB: I did. Or if I didn't make it clea

Re: [EM] RE : Ranked Preference benefits

2006-11-03 Thread Juho
On Nov 3, 2006, at 19:50 , Chris Benham wrote: > Juho wrote: >> On Nov 2, 2006, at 1:29 , Kevin Venzke wrote: >>> Juho, --- Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Example 1. Large party voters consider C better than the other large party candidate, but not much. 45: L>>C>R 40: R>>C>L 15:

[EM] using single seat elections as a first stage for a PR election

2006-11-03 Thread raphfrk
Sorry about re-sending this.  I forgot to change the title, and this post has nothing to do with the previous title. http://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html "You want to get both best possible quality & accountability and best possible representation" This is an interesting point. Wh

[EM] RE : Ranked Preference benefits

2006-11-03 Thread raphfrk
I am reposting this from my post at the rangevoting list (slightly modified). http://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html "You want to get both best possible quality & accountability and best possible representation" This is an interesting point. What about an assembly elected as follows: The

Re: [EM] RE : Ranked Preference benefits

2006-11-03 Thread Chris Benham
Juho, Juho wrote: On Nov 2, 2006, at 1:29 , Kevin Venzke wrote: Juho, --- Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Example 1. Large party voters consider C better than the other large party candidate, but not much. 45: L>>C>R 40: R>>C>L 15: C>L=R Ranked Preferences el