Re: [EM] Does IRV elect "majority winners?"

2009-01-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:58 AM 1/6/2009, James Gilmour wrote: > > --- On Tue, 6/1/09, James Gilmour wrote: > > "If the vote for any one candidate equals or exceeds > > the votes of all the other candidates combined, that candidate shall > > be declared elected." > > > Here you will see there is no reference to "a

Re: [EM] Does IRV elect "majority winners?"

2009-01-06 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:19:29 -0500 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 10:28 PM 1/4/2009, Dave Ketchum wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:16:14 -0500 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Perhaps. Perhaps not. That can be a *lot* of preparation, and people are busy, many don't already, find time for voting. Bull

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2009-01-06 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Kristofer Thank you very much for the link to the Mother Jones article describing efforts to curtail the utter domination corporations exert over our existence. Perhaps, in time, reason will triumph. re: "Practical Democracy really then has two parts - the selection phase

Re: [EM] Does IRV elect "majority winners?"

2009-01-06 Thread James Gilmour
> > --- On Tue, 6/1/09, James Gilmour wrote: > > "If the vote for any one candidate equals or exceeds > > the votes of all the other candidates combined, that candidate shall > > be declared elected." > > > Here you will see there is no reference to "a > > quota", nor is there any referen

Re: [EM] Does IRV elect "majority winners?"

2009-01-06 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Tue, 6/1/09, Kathy Dopp wrote: > > From: Juho Laatu > > > How should we see other methods like Range > > and Condorcet in this light? > > That is not a valid comparison because, unlike IRV/STV, > both Range and > Condorcet methods consider *all* rankings or ratings that > *all* voters >

Re: [EM] Does IRV elect "majority winners?"

2009-01-06 Thread Juho Laatu
--- On Tue, 6/1/09, James Gilmour wrote: > "If the vote for any one candidate equals or exceeds > the votes of all the other candidates combined, that > candidate shall be > declared elected." > Here you will see there is no reference to "a > quota", nor is there any reference to "a > majori