Re: [EM] Correction of false statements by Ossipoff & Schudy about range voting.

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Kislanko
Steve Eppley wrote in part: >>Warren Smith's example, in which a voter has total knowledge of all other votes before casting her own vote, is implausible in the elections we're interested in reforming.<< I might be mistaken, but when I was introduced to this group it was more about studying m

[EM] Old topic: Finding the "most representative" ranked ballot

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Kislanko
or comparing methods that have an ordered list as their result. The results of my test for 2007 D-1 baseball are at http://www.kislanko.com/tau_dist_pw_1.html Paul Kislanko election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] theorems about "point runoff" systems

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Kislanko
This is the kind of post that adds nothing to the EM debate. There's no "theorems about 'point runoff' systems" in the link that's all in the post. Go to the link, and try to find a "theorem" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Sm

Re: [EM] Finding SociallyBest. Is it impossible?

2007-04-07 Thread Paul Kislanko
Peter de Blanc wrote >> > Perhaps some artificial inteligence tool, like neural networks or genetic > algorithms, or a combination of both, could be used to search SociallyBest > (zero BR), or at least get near it. If such formula is found, it could be > truly complex or iloggical, something lik

Re: [EM] EQTOP-MPO MAMPO example

2007-03-27 Thread Paul Kislanko
Forest W Simmons wrote: >>re's the improved version of PG-MPO (for want of a better name): Ballots are range style. For each candidate X and each range level R, let A(X,R) be the number of ballots on which X is rated at level R or above.<< Here's the problem with that. If R is not an ordinal

Re: [EM] Majority Criterion, hidden contradictions

2006-11-10 Thread Paul Kislanko
Regarding: "Approval satisfies Majority rule, but not the Majority Criterion as interpreted." A majority of us VOTERS do not agree with the statement, even those of us who might or might not agree with the interpretation. It fails the absolute criterion, and a few of us voters notice that. We DO N

Re: [EM] simpler proof of "no conflict theorem" now trivial

2006-08-20 Thread Paul Kislanko
Sentences should have subjects and predicates. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Ketchum Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:08 PM To: Jonathan Lundell Cc: election-methods@electorama.com Subject: Re: [EM] simpler proof of "no conflict theor

Re: [EM] teams

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Kislanko
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:10 PM > To: Antonio Oneala; election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] teams > > At 06:23 PM 5/16/2006, Antonio Oneala wrote: > > Asset voting is a way to quickly aggregate the preference of > > the teams, but it does have f

Re: [EM] using welfare functions in election methods

2006-05-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
Obviously some academics have too much time on their hands, 'cause this is nonsense. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jobst Heitzig > Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 5:47 PM > To: Election Methods Mailing List > Subject: [EM] using wel

Re: [EM] Invitation for anyone to copy, web-post, or distribute my articles &/or postings

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Kislanko
> This has been false since at least 1989, when the Berne Convention > Implementation Act of 1988 went into effect and granted automatic > copyright protections on all copyrightable work as soon as that work > is created. > > Most other signatories implemented that part of the Berne Convention >

Re: [EM] Invitation for anyone to copy, web-post, or distribute my articles &/or postings

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Kislanko
t include such a notice, it is "Public Domain" by default. So, this reply to the list is Copyrighted 2006 by Paul Kislanko. Any use, misuse, or humorous satirization of this email is prohibited without explicit consent of the author. (Who will give it freely if it involves humoruus satir

Re: [EM] Proportional Condorcet Voting

2006-05-01 Thread Paul Kislanko
>From a theoretical standpoint, this may look intractactable, but for any finite N,K the problem is solvable in polynomial time in a manner that depends only upon N, K, and the number of voters. From a practical standpoint, the calculation is not difficult for up to N,K=293 by demonstation (I do th

Re: [EM] 120 Seats

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Brian Olson wrote (in part): Thus an > election to fill 20 seats or 40 seats, all from one ballot, might > start to get onerous if there are 2-5 times as many > candidates as seats. Not sure what you mean. From the voters' perspective the complexity is just # of candidates if the method r

Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Kislanko
No, that is another mischaracterization of the original suggestion. The whole EM list idea is now not worth my trouble, since everybody seems to misinterpret everything anybody says and nobody wants to have a common lexicon. Shheeesh. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [

Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Kislanko
Dave Ketchum wrote: Interpreting Condorcet arrays is usually simple enough to do without a computer, but best left to a computer with the rules programmed in for cycles, which can happen. OK, I have a system with 293 alternatives and a few thousand voters. If you think it is simple to cont the 4

Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > > It seems to have been missed by Mr. Ketchum that the voting is for a > candidate, and that each candidate provides only one list, in advance > of the election. Hence he asked: > > >Starts out looking good but, how many lists might there be > with half a > >doze

Re: [EM] Voting by selecting a published ordering

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Looking much like Condorcet. From there we know that cycles > can occur, > needing more thought here. Only in the case of ties with respect to the pluralities that chose the rankings involved. I think with more thoughht we'll find that the tiebreaking method here corresponds to a cycle-break

Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-01 Thread Paul Kislanko
Eric Gorr wrote: > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:05 PM > To: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality > > Quoting Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (this is what has happened in the US over > > the last 8 ye

Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-01 Thread Paul Kislanko
Paul Kislanko wrote > This is the fundamental question with delegable-Proxy. In > order to meet > Jobst's requirements, there must be a nomination and election > (by secret > ballot) of proxy-holders. > > Here, at least, there's no question about conforming to any

Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-01 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Jobst Heitzig wrote > Dear Abd ul-Rahman! > > I wrote: > >> ... no person X must know whether or not s/he is a proxy for some > >> other person Y, and Y must not have a possibility of proving to X > >> that X is Y's proxy. > >> ... Is this possible without the use of > >> advanced technolo

Re: [EM] Tallying visualization for Condorcet methods?

2006-02-05 Thread Paul Kislanko
Jiri Räsänen asked: > > Hello everyone, > > I am new to this list. I am interested for possible ways to visualize > the votes tallying and the results for Beatpath method. > > Previously I have done some campaigning for the use of STV and found > out that once I could draw the graphical versio

Re: [EM] election-methods Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Kislanko
> In the legislatures (parliaments) that I am familiar with, if > members want to > abstain from a formal vote count, they have to leave the chamber. > > In these formal vote counts (divisions), all those voting one > way move to one side > of the chamber, those coting the other way move to the

Re: [EM] Correlated Instant Borda Runoff, without Borda

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Kislanko
I remain amazed that my light-hearted reference to a 50 year old science fiction short story has prompted so much traffic. At the risk of giving away the whole story, the idea is that there's this computer that runs everything, and it picks one person from all the people in the world, constructs th

Re: [EM] Correlated Instant Borda Runoff, without Borda

2005-12-25 Thread Paul Kislanko
ence fiction). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Abd ulRahman Lomax > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:38 PM > To: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] Correlated Instant Borda Runoff, without Borda >

Re: [EM] Updated article

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Kislanko
Again, I'm just a po' li'l ol' voter here. But there was a resonation with the "need to have accurate polling data".   Neither I nor any other voter in my precinct gives a hoot or assigns any credibility to the "have to have something to publish so we'll publish the results of a badly-conduct

Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Kislanko
ods@electorama.comSubject: Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium On 12/24/05, Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Brown wrote: I'm a little curious, since you seem to talk about multiple voters

Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Kislanko
"I'm a little curious, since you seem to talk about multiple voters switching their vote togethermaybe this really represents a situation where there are multiple equilibriums, as opposed to no equilibriums?"   On the surface, "multiple equilibria" is kind of an oxymoron, but the notion

Re: [EM] Correlated Instant Borda Runoff, without Borda

2005-12-23 Thread Paul Kislanko
Awhile back Dave Gamble and I speculated off-list that the "best" election method would have each candidate fill out an extensive questionaire, and have each voter fill out the same questionaire. Then a computer program would find the best correlation between voters' answers and candidates' answers

Re: [EM] counting ballots

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
Jobst already provided the correct answer, which is part of the mathematical literature. No need to publish yours. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Warren Smith > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:02 PM > To: election-methods

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
t: Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates On 12/14/05, Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it is possible, though, to use the combination of pairwise matrixand the counts-by-rank matrix together to retrieve the the original ballotpref

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
ences. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rob LeGrand > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:37 PM > To: Election Methods Mailing List > Subject: Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates > > P

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates On 12/14/05, Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a thought for your endeavor. A way to save "more" information than the pairwise matrix but less than saving counts of each ballot configuration is t

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
results. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob brownSent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:12 PMTo: Paul KislankoCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Election Methods Mailing ListSubject: Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates On 12/14/05, Paul Kislanko

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
Just a thought for your endeavor. A way to save "more" information than the pairwise matrix but less than saving counts of each ballot configuration is to save an NxN matrix with column headings being count of #1, #2, ... #N ranks and rows being the Alternatives. Use the rule:   If equals ar

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
James Gilmour: wrote > > Maybe there are 4 million possibilities with 10 candidates, > but you won't have 4 million actual combinations unless you > have many more voters than 4 million. I was going to mention this as well. From a practical standpoint, one only need record the "forms" of ballots

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Election Methods Mailing ListSubject: Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates On 12/14/05, Rob LeGrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Kislanko wrote:> The number of full ranked ballots is just the number of permutations

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
e: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates > > Paul Kislanko wrote: > > The number of full ranked ballots is just the number of > permutations of > > N alternatives = N! > > > > If equal ranknigs are allowed, it's N! + 2^N - 1 > > I assume

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
working with ways of using actual ballot data vs. just the matrix? ;) -rob On 12/14/05, Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The number of full ranked ballots is just the number of permutations of N alternatives = N!   If equal ranknigs are allo

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rob LeGrand > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:13 PM > To: Election Methods Mailing List > Subject: Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates >

Re: [EM] number of possible ranked ballots given N candidates

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
The number of full ranked ballots is just the number of permutations of N alternatives = N!   If equal ranknigs are allowed, it's N! + 2^N - 1   If truncation is allowed it is approximately N! * e   And if both truncation AND equal rankings are allowed it's approximately N! * e + 2^N - 1  

Re: [EM] reply to Gilmour attack on range voting & social utility; CCd to RangeVoting

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > > Let me put it this way. If we have a true democracy, the form of > government and its institutions are a matter of the consent of the > people. Let me put it this way. Any time I see a discussion about how a voting method works begin with a philosophical argum

Re: [EM] question re: converting ballots into a matrix

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Kislanko
/bucklincomps.html (I call it bucklincomps because you can use the same matrix to figure Bucklin or Approval results). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Paul Kislanko > Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:24 PM > To: &#

Re: [EM] question re: converting ballots into a matrix

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Kislanko
I don't think Chris is right about this, unless the definitions for "total votes for" and "total votes against" are defined in a way that isn't included in his description. If "total votes for" is the sum of votes in the row corresponding to the alternative, and "total votes against" is the sum of

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Kislanko
ect: Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix On 12/2/05, Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only thing I asked was for people who make logical or mathematicalclaims to prove them.No one wants to bother, so I don't care. Paul, you made claims that

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Kislanko
OK, I give up. The only thing I asked was for people who make logical or mathematical claims to prove them. No one wants to bother, so I don't care. There isn't a PaulK "method", there is a suggestion that descriptions and proofs be axiomitized in such a way that claims can be explained unambig

Re: [EM] ignoring "strength of opinion"

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Steve Eppley wrote: > > Hi, > > [Rob Brown suggested I post his unintentionally private message > to me and my reply. Here they are.] > > Rob wrote to me: > On 12/1/05, Steve Eppley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with both of Rob's messages so far on this topic > > except for o

Re: [EM] ignoring "strength of opinion"

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Kislanko
Rob has pretty much hit the nail on the head. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob brownSent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:17 PMTo: election-methods@electorama.comSubject: [EM] ignoring "strength of opinion" I was thinking about Paul K's

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > At 01:32 PM 11/29/2005, Paul Kislanko wrote: > >I actually have no method. But "Condorcet ballots" is an > ambiguous term as > >used in the reply to me. I actualy suggested that there BE a > well-defined CB > >such that for each

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:11 PM > To: Paul Kislanko > Cc: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:41:3

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Ketchum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:33 PM > To: Paul Kislanko > Cc: 'rob brown'; election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix > > This one see

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Ketchum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:34 PM > To: Paul Kislanko > Cc: 'Rob Brown'; election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix > > You are mixi

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Kislanko
> > I apologize if my comments came off as an attack. I am just > trying to > understand your complaint, and unfortunately I still don't. If you > don't want to address the question, then from my point of view, your > complaint doesn't make sense and I just have to consider it "proven" > no

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Rob Brown: > > Paul Kislanko airmail.net> writes: > > > That's my reason to distrust them. What is "beuatiful" about > > getting my vote wrong? > > You have not supported your argument that they "get your vote wrong". > They

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Rob Brown wrote: > > Isn't the fact that Condorcet methods ignore ballot positions > relative to > the "whole field of alternatives" the whole beauty of what Condorcet > methods do? That's my reason to distrust them. What is "beuatiful" about getting my vote wrong? election-methods mai

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Kislanko
I'll try again to make clear what I mean by not being convinced that methods that use the PM to count votes can accurately reflect voters' preferences.   The basic claim is that the pairwise matrix accurately reflects pairwise preferences by the voters. I do not believe this claim, because

Re: [EM] thoughts on the pairwise matrix

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Kislanko
>What do you consider it?Processed data.   >what kind of information is lost when going from ballots to the matrix? The relative positions on ballots compared to the whole field of alternatives. Alternative A ranked first, and E ranked fifth is cancelled by an E ranked fourth and A ranked f

Re: [EM] I think Bishop's deconstruction algorithm fails

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Kislanko
Mr Smith obviously doesn't understand English any more than he does math. Mis-quoting me and mis-charactizing my arguments is proof of that. What I said, in plain English, is that since there are multiple decompositions of a pairwise matrix that would lead to the same pairwise matrix, it would be

Re: [EM] I think Bishop's deconstruction algorithm fails

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Kislanko
It depends upon what you mean by "fail". There are many different ballot configurations that result in the same pairwise-matrix, so there is not likely to be a unique solution to the Diophantine equations involved in the decomposition. Whether that is a problem or not is a matter of taste. Bishop

Re: [EM] Bishop's Condorcet Matrix Deconstruction

2005-11-26 Thread Paul Kislanko
Well, none of the examples that have referenced "sports tournaments" have had any relevance to election methods. The whole discussion about "condorcet matrix" related to ballot sets is what Dr. Paulos refers to as "innumeracy" as a short form for "mathematical illiteracy". _ From: [EM

Re: [EM] "scored condorcet", etc

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Kislanko
> Rob Brown wrote: > > Abd ul-Rahman Lomax lomaxdesign.com> writes: > > Color (even gray scale) can instantly show the Condorcet > winner in a > > pairwise matrix. I'll use gray scale. When the candidate naming the > > row wins, leave the background color of the cell white. When the > > colum

Re: [EM] "scored condorcet", etc

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Kislanko
"Condorcet lets voters rank the candidates, looks at ALL that the voters say, and compares each pair of candidates. Doing all the counting is easy enough by computer, but a strain by hand. When there are near ties they can get called cycles and resolution takes thought." Defend the statement

Re: [EM] "scored condorcet", etc

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Kislanko
This is a more eloquent description of what I've always been saying. Voters understand "list the candidates you like in order". Approval makes us uneasy because "list any candidate that isn't one you don't like" causes is to worry that which we do like better might get an advantage depeding

Re: [EM] "scored condorcet", etc

2005-11-21 Thread Paul Kislanko
If I'm not getting too senile, somewhere I read that the definition of an "election method" was a mapping of ranked ballots into an ordered list. That would make "scoring" a Condorcet method a legitimate question. I have a personal distrust of methods that "score" by looking at only the contents o

Re: [EM] FBC definition (mine)

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Kislanko
Warren's definition makes no sense once we get into the definition of incentive. Y'all are making this too hard. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Warren Smith > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 5:17 PM > To: election-methods@el

Re: [EM] A quick, dirty, and somewhat obvious method for a secretproxy ballot

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Kislanko
ay she said she would when "campaining" for voters to select her as proxy. Hence, anyone casting more than one vote (i.e., hers and all the proxies she holds) must make her vote public. > -Original Message- > From: Scott Ritchie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, Nov

Re: [EM] simple question (I think)

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Scott Ritchie > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:49 PM > To: rob brown > Cc: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] simple question (I think) > > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 16:27 -0800

Re: [EM] A quick, dirty, and somewhat obvious method for a secret proxy ballot

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Scott Ritchie > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:01 PM > To: Paul Kislanko > Cc: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] A quick, dirty,and somewhat obviou

Re: [EM] simple question (I think)

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Kislanko
"Candidates A, B and C all have 8 pairwise wins.  D has 7.  Could D still be chosen as the winner by any "reasonable" method? "   Sure. D's 7 pairwise wins could be by a large enough majority that the "extra" pairwise win that A, B, and C have over the fringe candidate that beats D by 1 vote

Re: [EM] A quick, dirty, and somewhat obvious method for a secret proxy ballot

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Kislanko
I won't respond to all of the following, but what I have to say was prompted by the message > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: election-m

Re: [EM] Public elections are the ones that matter.

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Kislanko
I can categorically state that no one in my small town would vote for any method that did include secret ballots. Consider anonymoty an axiom for any method to be considered for US voters. That there may be no theoretical argument for it is irrelevant. If it is not a part of the method, nobody i

Re: [EM] working paper on delegable proxy voting

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Kislanko
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax quoted: At 12:01 AM 11/14/2005, James Green-Armytage wrote: >. Issue independence: Even when there are multiple issues on the same >ballot, I should have the option of indicating separate proxies for >separate issues, while still voting directly on other issues, if I choose. T

Re: [EM] corrctions to older psts re IRV public election data

2005-11-12 Thread Paul Kislanko
Warren is quite correct about: Re NP-hardness & polytime, all such results take place in an asymptotic limit as some parameter or parameters describing nput size tend to infinity. Say the input size is N bits; then an algorithm is polytime if its runtime is http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] another lottery method

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Kislanko
I'm not sure what you are saying here. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simmons, Forest Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:31 PM To: election-methods@electorama.com Subject: [EM] another lottery method Ballots are ordinal with approval cutoffs (or some

Re: [EM] Some answers to "1-person-1-vote"

2005-11-08 Thread Paul Kislanko
> MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: > I'll refer to the "1-person-1-vote" objection to Approval as "1p1v". > > 1p1v has been demolished on EM in so many ways that I don't > claim that this > message will cover all of them. But I'd like to mention a few of them. > > 1p1v advocates imply or say that the vote

Re: [EM] RLPO2PA

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Kislanko
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: > RLPO2PA has a brief definition, but, for the public, it won't > be perceived > as a simple definition. They won't like recursion. IRV could be described as recursive plurality, and folks have explained that satisfactorily. Any recursive process that can be proven to termin

Re: [EM] What SFC & SDSC mean for rank methods

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Kislanko
> MIKE OSSIPOFF writes in part... > Subject: [EM] What SFC & SDSC mean for rank methods > > But they have a special meaning for rank methods. Critics of > pairwise-count > methods, including Condorcet, criticize these methods for the > offensive > strategies that are possible. Offensive orde

Re: [EM] MDD,ER-Bucklin (whole)

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Kislanko
> 40 A=B>D > 35 D>B > 25 C>D > > Now candidate D wins, with 100 votes in the second round." No. 40 A=B>D is still 40 votes for D no higher than third. So in the second round D has 60 votes. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Chris

Re: [EM] The Range Voting example

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Kislanko
Mike wrote (see below for context): "Sure, the A and B voters have to choose whether to help eachother or compete with eachother, and if one competes and one helps, then that faction is being had. If they both compete, they both lose. That's the co-operation/defection problem, as it occurs in vo

Re: [EM] Going down one rank position per Bucklin round

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Kislanko
Mike Ossippoff wrote: > > > Forest-- > > You wrote: > > If you use a range style ballot, and just go down one slot > per Bucklin move, > then you could discard the majority defeated candidates. It > might help > mitigate the Clone Winner problem, too. > > I reply: > > But wouldn't that l

Re: [EM] Steph: your rating method

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Kislanko
Mike is correct. Bucklin with equal rankings and truncation allowed is equivalent to ratings and does not require the complication in voting and counting that ratings introduces. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > MIKE OSSIPOFF > Sen

Re: [EM] Dave: More levels of expressable preference

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Kislanko
Mike Ossippoff wrote: (see below for full text) I reply: I agree. Most any method is acceptable then, except for Borda, which in its standard form, forces you to rank all the candidates. This is not an accurate description of what Count de Borda wrote. In its "standard form" Borda says "

Re: [EM] Steph: Your rating method

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Kislanko
See below > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dave Ketchum > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:38 PM > Do you have to go back and look at the ballots after deciding > on value of > R? Gets messy with many ballots such as for go

[EM] Ranked-ballots and strategic voting (Was - truncation in IRV example (as requested by Benham))

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Kislanko
Warren's example for IRV provides an excellent description of why I prefer ranked-ballots with equal-rankings and truncation allowed, and prompted these comments. Note that in the example forcing the last 3 voters to list all preferences caused their LEAST favorite to win. This is a nice demonstra

Re: [EM] Can ranking improve on Approval? MDDA strategy.

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Kislanko
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > MIKE OSSIPOFF > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:04 PM > To: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: [EM] Can ranking improve on Approval? MDDA strategy. > > > For me, as an individual voter, i

Re: [EM] I eat my words (but not wholly) 2

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
And the DH3 chemical weapon is really nasty. C'mon, folks. If it's worth an abbreviation or acronymn it's worth spelling out. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kevin Venzke > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 11:49 PM > To: election-

Re: [EM] I eat my words (but not wholly)

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
My main objection is the notion that voters want to support a particular vote-counting method's requitement for gathering information from voters. No, us voters don't care whether the method needs maximum information (make me rank 6 candidates when I only even care about a best and worst and consid

Re: [EM] I eat my words (but not wholly)

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Kislanko
OK, one more time. I'm just a dumb voter and: "Fact is, a lot of voters want to express maximum information (natural human drive) and do not want to truncate ballots." is not defensible. I do NOT want to have to rank voters I want to lose. Nobody in my precinct wants to even think about more than

Re: [EM] Paul: Your ramblings about sincerity

2005-10-12 Thread Paul Kislanko
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > MIKE OSSIPOFF > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:05 PM > To: election-methods@electorama.com > Subject: [EM] Paul: Your ramblings about sincerity > > > Paul Kislanko says: > > If your definition is not universally applicable,

Re: [EM] Paul: Your ramblings about sincerity

2005-10-11 Thread Paul Kislanko
e- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > MIKE OSSIPOFF > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EM] Paul: Your ramblings about sincerity > > > Paul Kislanko says: > > If your definition is not uni