Re: [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-07-31 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Jobst Heitzig wrote: Hello all, although I did not follow all of the discussion so far, the following question strikes me: Why the hell do you care about proportional representation of minorities when the representative body itself does not decide with a method that ensures a proportional d

[Election-Methods] proportional representation, recent questions and older work

2008-07-31 Thread Warren Smith
> To my understanding, RRV is constructed so that it reduces to D'Hondt if > people stick to party lines and vote max for all within the party and min to > the rest. Is that true? --there is a parameter in RRV that can be adjusted so we get D'Hondt with one value and Sainte-Lague with another (and

Re: [Election-Methods] Selectricity

2008-07-31 Thread Brian Olson
I've talked to the guy who built it. He lives not too far from where I do in the Boston area. I'm jealous of his shiny UI. It makes my http://betterpolls.com/ and http://poll.appspot.com/ look clunky and primitive (which is accurate, since I didn't do anything beyond the 8 year old HTML 4.01

Re: [Election-Methods] final attempt for a strategy-free range voting variant, and another proportionally democratic method

2008-07-31 Thread fsimmons
Here's a proof of part (f): In phase II if my ballot is not one of the ones drawn, then it has no influence. So suppose that it is one of the drawn ballots. If all of the drawn ballots, including mine, approve the phase I winner, then she is elected., and my utility for the result is exactly

Re: [Election-Methods] PR favoring racial minorities (Gilmour/Dopp?)

2008-07-31 Thread Juho
On Jul 31, 2008, at 0:50 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: In any case, the left-right problem would still be a limitation to RRV, where ballots are set so that RV (and any sensible method) would elect Center first, but where electing an assembly of two should elect Left and Right. For some r

Re: [Election-Methods] PR favoring racial minorities (Gilmour/Dopp?)

2008-07-31 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Juho wrote: On Jul 31, 2008, at 0:50 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: In any case, the left-right problem would still be a limitation to RRV, where ballots are set so that RV (and any sensible method) would elect Center first, but where electing an assembly of two should elect Left and Right.