Re: [EM] MDDA vs UncAAO, ASM & DMC

Mike O. wrote ... UncAAO, ASM, and DMC ignore defeat-magnitude and magnitude of pair-wise opposition. They look at pair-wise vote totals in order to find out who beats whom, but then they throw pair-wise vote total information away. Throwing that information away has regrettable consequences.

[EM] Professor Avi Rubin and American Idol election methods

Professor and noted electronic voting security expert Avi Rubin recently discussedsome recent American Idol "election" events. He was discussing some of the technical merits of a vote-by-phone system at the possibility of f

Re: [EM] D2MAC can be much more efficient than Range Voting (corrected)

On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:00 , Scott Ritchie wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:56 -0500, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Under what conditions could random ballot be the ideal method? What goal of an election would be best served by random ballot, and not by another method designed specifically for that

Re: [EM] D2MAC can be much more efficient than Range Voting (corrected)

On Mar 9, 2007, at 0:43 , Jobst Heitzig wrote: Dear Warren, you wrote: Aha, that explains it. The phrasing of the definition was very poor since it can be parsed in several ways. You have to try to define things in ways that can only be parsed in one way. It helps to use short sentences.

Re: [EM] What is the ideal election method for sincere voters?

On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:12 , David Cary wrote: > I describe a sincere vote as one which reflects as accurately as > possible the person's personal preferences. The preferences are ones > that are independent of the election method Although the preferences may be independent of the election method

[EM] Electronic voting in Estonia

Electronic voting in Estonia, in case you haven't read about this yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_parliamentary_election%2C_2007 Juho ___ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in