Re: [EM] participatory democracy

2006-06-29 Thread Anthony O';Neal
It's a chaotic system, in that there is no precise, neat, structureset up in advance. However, the human nervous system is organized pretty much like this, from the ground up.How about joining Metaparty?(And you can be sure that most of us will support other efforts thatfollow similar principles. O

[EM] Mixed member proxy list

2006-06-29 Thread Anthony O';Neal
I think people in America and so many other places are attached to the SMD system because they feel it provides them with a member of congress whom they can always respond to.  People don't often realize that this is true to the people who don't want that candidate in office.  The mixed member part

[EM] Suggested name for range voting: free voting

2006-06-21 Thread Anthony O';Neal
I can't believe I missed such a massive flaw...Coming up with an approval-range method not vulnerable to vote management is difficult. For electing a candidate, we consume an amount of voting power from the people who had such a candidate marked by V/ N + 1 (the Bischoff quota) (where V is your def

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

[EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-15 Thread Anthony O';Neal
Range voting's name has always sounded slightly of metallic and bland to me.  So I propose that we call it the "free vote" instead, simply because it is probably the least restrictive voting system yet proposed.  It doesn't force any rules on people except that they must give points within a specif

Re: [EM] Rob Richie's critiscism of approval voting

2006-06-14 Thread Anthony O';Neal
election-methods@electorama.comJonathan Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:    At 2:18 PM -0600 6/13/06, Jan Kok wrote:    >One bit of help I could use: Is anyone familiar with the article Rob    >mentions in this paragraph?    >    >> Jack Nagel, a UPenn professor, has an important new article out

Re: [EM] An example of BTR-STV

2006-06-08 Thread Anthony O';Neal
Anthony O'Neal wrote:> STV elects Andrea, Carter, and Deliliah. CPO-STV elects Andrea,> Carter, and Scott.>> Now let's compute the score for BTR-STV:>>I should point out that I proposed BTR-IRV as a slightly hacked IRV >>that>>would never eliminate

Re: [EM] an example of BTR-IRV (the name as now been changed to STV-ME)

2006-06-08 Thread Anthony O';Neal
Anthony O'Neal wrote:    > (This is the election I pulled out of the Wikipedia article for    CPO-STV.    > I just didn't feel like making up an election where the results from    > CPO-STV and STV differ right now. If you want to see how     > the results for the CPO-ST

[EM] An example of BTR-STV

2006-06-06 Thread Anthony O';Neal
ing to paint my method out to be simialar to CPO-STV.  I have presented both, so if any of you know more about the subject feel free to point me in the right direction. -Anthony O'Neal election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info