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

2008-03-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:27 PM 3/30/2008, Dave Ketchum wrote: >Runoffs main value is recovering from a methods weaknesses until >something can be done about the method. They are too expensive to >be accepted as if a normal part of a usable method. What is missed here is that the basic requirement for an election

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

2008-03-30 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:54:40 -0400 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:54:40 -0400 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 08:30 AM 3/30/2008, Dave Ketchum wrote: > >>On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:28:22 -0400 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: >> >>>At 03:32 PM 3/29/2008, Dave Ketchum wrote: >>> >>> Some see forest; some see trees

[Election-Methods] A New Measure of Election Auditing Discrepancy

2008-03-30 Thread Kathy Dopp
These election auditing methods work no matter how many candidates or winners in a race. However, they would not yet work for any rank order voting system. You guys might want to work on extending the mathematics of election auditing so that they would. Kathy --- March 30, 2008 A New Measure of E

[Election-Methods] CRV website back up (allegedly)

2008-03-30 Thread Warren Smith
http://RangeVoting.org Sorry for the downtime. I am way behind on site updates too. For example, a goodly chunk of the site has been translated into Spanish but that is not yet available online. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step

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

2008-03-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:30 AM 3/30/2008, Dave Ketchum wrote: >On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:28:22 -0400 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: >>At 03:32 PM 3/29/2008, Dave Ketchum wrote: >> >>>Some see forest; some see trees; who sees all? >> >>Those who see a forest made up of trees. >> >>>Looking at the 31 voter Plurality example:

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

2008-03-30 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:28:22 -0400 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 03:32 PM 3/29/2008, Dave Ketchum wrote: > >> Some see forest; some see trees; who sees all? > > > Those who see a forest made up of trees. > >> Looking at the 31 voter Plurality example: >> 16 voted for candidates with 3 or