Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-03-02 Thread Steve Eppley
Hi, Fred Gohlke wrote: This site focuses on methods of conducting elections, but most posts address only a single aspect of that topic; the way votes are counted. Is not the object for which votes are cast a matter of even greater concern? When our public officials are not representative

[Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-02 Thread mrouse1
Just an addendum from previous post (Minimum Distance Condorcet Completion). I'm curious about voting methods that take ranked ballot methods and adapt them to range ballots. For example, with Baldwin's method, you take drop the candidate with the lowest Borda score, recalculate, and so on. A

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-02 Thread Juho
Check also James Green-Armytage's cardinal-weighted pairwise comparison method if you haven't don that yet. = http:// fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/cwp13.htm Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two other candidates (Y and Z). I find

Re: [Election-Methods] Using range ballots as an extension of ranked ballot voting

2008-03-02 Thread mrouse1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Check also James Green-Armytage's cardinal-weighted pairwise comparison method if you haven't don that yet. = http://fc.antioch.edu/~james_green-armytage/cwp13.htmThanks, I'll do that!Can you also clarify a bit how step 3 is counted when some candidate X is beaten by two other

Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-03-02 Thread Juho
On Mar 2, 2008, at 17:45 , Fred Gohlke wrote: SEEKING IMPROVEMENT We do not need partisanship, which sets one person against another; we need independent representatives who will think for themselves and reach intelligent decisions on matters of public concern. In other words, to

Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-03-02 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:45:42 -0500 Fred Gohlke wrote: This site focuses on methods of conducting elections, but most posts address only a single aspect of that topic; the way votes are counted. Is not the object for which votes are cast a matter of even greater concern? When our public