Re: [Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-03-29 Thread Juho
On Mar 29, 2008, at 5:05 , Fred Gohlke wrote: > Good Morning, Juho > > Very well said. I hope you're right. I hope we can improve our > political systems in less than 200 years. But, as you point out, "... > the current establishment always has clear reasons to oppose any > changes." That will

Re: [Election-Methods] YN model - simple voting model in which range optimal, others not

2008-03-29 Thread Warren Smith
> Building on those thoughts, let's try something with Plurality: > Start with that collection of voters and issues. > Invert all the issues so that a Y will attract the same voters as an > N did, and an N will attract those who had gone for Y. > Note that will now attract

[Election-Methods] Is rangevoting.org down? (plus some questions on converting Range to Approval)

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Rouse
I was trying to visit http://rangevoting.org/ to see if there was anything about an automated strategy to convert Range votes into Approval votes (just to move strategy from a hit-or-miss process on the part of certain savvy voters to something applied universally), and it looks like the web pa

[Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-03-29 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Evening, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax I prefer to exchange views with you on the Election-Methods site. The way we select those who represent us in our government is critical to our society, which embodies all manner of people. To create an effective political structure I'm anxious to get thoughtf

Re: [Election-Methods] YN model - simple voting model in which range optimal, others not

2008-03-29 Thread Dave Ketchum
Looking closer, I tripped on this one: >> Note that will now attract the same 5 voters who had gone for >> , and the new will get 0 votes. Saying it more carefully: >> Note that previous , now labelled , will attract the same 5 voters who had gone for , and