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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:52 PM
> The tragedy is that IRV is
> replacing Top Two Runoff, an older reform that actually works better
> than IRV.
I have seen statements like this quite a few times, and they puzzle me. I can
see the benefit in TTRO in knowing be
At 06:25 PM 11/26/2008, Ralph Suter wrote:
To Greg Dennis:
I appreciate your efforts to express your arguments clearly and
defend them with good data. Nevertheless, I find them mostly unpersuasive.
Yes, we noticed. That they were unpersuasive. That Mr. Suter comments
on this is significant,
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:09 PM
> IRV advocates are a bit obsessed with Later No Harm. I think the
> average voter doesn't think about it at all.
My experience over several decades of explaining voting systems to ordinary
electors leads me to the opposite conclu
http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/20081203/
Tight population grouping at the left moving to widely spread on the
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Brian Olson
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-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:19 PM 12/1/2008, Paul Kislanko wrote:
>PS. This is what I don't like about approval. In my generalized
>voter-friendly ballot, Approval requires me to vote A=B=C=D... when I
really
>like A a lot better than the others. But that method doe
Regarding my proposed Unmanipulable Majority criterion:
*If (assuming there are more than two candidates) the ballot
rules don't constrain voters to expressing fewer than three
preference-levels, and A wins being voted above B on more
than half the ballots, then it must not be possible to make
At 04:47 PM 12/2/2008, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Yes. Preference can be determined, generally, rather easily, by one
of two methods. The first method is pairwise comparison. With a
series of pairwise comparisons, we can construct a rank order
At 01:32 PM 12/2/2008, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
Good point; you're quite right. My claim might be right in the context
of zero polling knowledge, but not otherwise.
Which is all the worse for Approval.
I responded to Mr. Bouricius. His example was misleading, in fact,
because the "illogical" v
At 01:11 PM 12/2/2008, Terry Bouricius wrote:
Jonathan Lundell wrote regarding Approval voting strategy:
"It's also obvious that if, for whatever reason, I vote for candidate X, I
should vote for all the candidates that I prefer to X."
I note that Jonathan said the voter "should," rather than "
At 12:31 PM 12/2/2008, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Are there any other ways of defining a sincere and "non-strategic"
ratings ballot? Direct external reference of the sort "I'd pay
amount Z to have X elected" fails because of income differences and
the nonlinearity of money. Definitions based
At 11:40 AM 12/2/2008, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
That's not really what an approval cutoff is. An approval cutoff is
used by some methods to denote "the candidates above are those I can
accept; those below, I really don't like". At least that's what I
understand, though some methods may reward stra
At 06:25 AM 12/2/2008, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
That's not really what an approval cutoff is. An approval cutoff is
used by some methods to denote "the candidates above are those I can
accept; those below, I really don't like". At least that's what I
understand, though some methods may re
At 03:13 AM 12/2/2008, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
On another note, Abd says the only method that got better Bayesian
Regret scores than Range, among those Warren has tested, is Range +
top two runoff. To my knowledge, that's not true, as Warren says a
DSV variant of Range got better scores t
Forest,
"What nicer distribution can you think of.."
"Nice" (and "nicer") is a fuzzy emotional/aesthetic term that I might apply to
food, music, people etc.
but seems unscientific and out-of-place here (and I'm not sure exactly what
it's supposed to mean).
I can see that such a distribution i
Hi,
I think it's misleading to compare voting methods pseudo-empirically the
way Greg did below, because the positions on the issues that the
candidates will take (assuming they want to win) depend (in part) on the
voting method, and the decisions by potential candidates whether to run
depend
Hi,
I've replaced all the Microsoft Symbol fonts in the MAM website
(www.alumni.caltech.edu/~seppley) with Unicode to make the website
accessible to more people. Other web browsers besides Microsoft
Internet Explorer can now display the math and Greek symbols used in the
formal definitions,
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