From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Sent: 31 December 2006 02:29
How can you compare your irritation with mine?
Perhaps we should use range voting? Then we could express the strengths
of our respective irritations.
With Best Wishes for a good New Year and for some effective reform of
voting systems
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Sent: 30 December 2006 15:42
Well, it is a bit irritating to me, and perhaps to some others, that
AV is used in the paper to refer to Alternative Vote; we routinely
use it for Approval Voting.
Maybe, but I suspect US readers will find that the acromyn AV was used
for
Well, it is a bit irritating to me, and perhaps to some others, that
AV is used in the paper to refer to Alternative Vote; we routinely
use it for Approval Voting.
Thanks for pointing out this. I will try to make things clearer by using
Alternative Vote and Approval Voting rather than the AV.
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Sent: 30 December 2006 18:49
At 01:05 PM 12/30/2006, James Gilmour wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Sent: 30 December 2006 15:42
Well, it is a bit irritating to me, and perhaps to some others,
that
AV is used in the paper to refer to Alternative Vote; we routinely
At 02:24 PM 12/30/2006, James Gilmour wrote:
Maybe, but I suspect US readers will find that the acronym AV was
used
for Alternative Vote many decades before the term Approval Voting
was first coined by Robert J. Weber in 1976 (Wikipedia).
I did not claim that it was wrong, it was
