On 10/28/2011 2:21 PM, capologist wrote:
> > ...
> Not quite what I'm looking for. ...
> ...
> I'm looking for a deterministic method for generating a "picture"
> (partial ordering) of how the voters, in aggregate, feel about the
> preferability of the available options. (What we're doing at this
Welcome!
An excellent summary of the collective view of most participants here is
our recently created "Declaration of Election-Method Reform Advocates".
It doesn't yet have a permanent home; a temporary copy is here:
http://www.votefair.org/declaration.html
Your views overlap with many of
I just joined the list.
I'm a political economist turned electoral enthusiast.
My views are:
1. All modern democracies are unstable mixtures of popular democracy and
plutocracy.
2. Electoral Reform is meant to bolster the former.
3. There are two basic types of election rules: winner-take-all (al
Hi all,
proxy voting for a person i in a specific election could maybe be
formalized as follows:
V:=(v1,...vi,..., vN), where vi is the vote of voter i, 1<=i<=N, N is the
number of voters.
V is the actual or publically announced votes of the voters, where 1 means
yes, and 0 means no.
sum(V) count
Dear Mike (and Kathy),
Mike wrote:
> And a proxy needn't be a political figure, party leader, candidate,
> or anyone special. One's proxy could be _anyone_ whom one wants to
> vote for hir. (As designated for a particular issue-category, or a
> particular vote, or as pre-chosen default proxy). I
Dear Fred,
> I've pondered your assertion that "the effect of an individual vote
> is exactly zero" for a considerable time and do not believe it is
> sound. Your 5 points assume that elections are static events.
> They're not.
>
> > 1. Take the last election in which you voted, and look at
> >
capologist wrote:
I'm no expert in this field, but it is one I find interesting and
visit from time to time. My first encounter with it was when I
stumbled on a website advocating what was then called the Tideman
method, before it was called Ranked Pairs and before the Schulze
method was discover
