Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Kevin Venzke
De : Jameson Quinn À : electionscie...@googlegroups.com Cc : EM Envoyé le : Vendredi 3 février 2012 22h06 Objet : Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet > >Condorcet systems fundamentally try to maximize the wrong thing. They try to >maximize the

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Juho Laatu
On 5.2.2012, at 5.39, Jameson Quinn wrote: > > > With information like this it should be (in principle) a quite mechanical > process to check all relevant available methods against the targets and > environment description, and then pick the best method (and ballot format) > (and guidance to

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Juho Laatu
On 5.2.2012, at 5.34, robert bristow-johnson wrote: > On 2/4/12 4:01 PM, Juho Laatu wrote: >> On 4.2.2012, at 19.14, robert bristow-johnson wrote: >> >>> so, i have a few questions for everyone here: >>> >>>1. do we all agree that every voter's franchise is precisely equal? >>>2. if e

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 2/4/12 10:39 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: With information like this it should be (in principle) a quite mechanical process to check all relevant available methods against the targets and environment description, and then pick the best method (and ballot format)

Re: [EM] STV+AV

2012-02-04 Thread David L Wetzell
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Bryan Mills wrote: > > From: Bryan Mills >> > To: David L Wetzell >> > > If there are 3-5 seats STV then the number of candidates won't >> > proliferate >> > > too much and there'd be 5-7 places to vote. This would keep things >> > > reasonable. >> > >> > To get

Re: [EM] STV+AV

2012-02-04 Thread Jameson Quinn
> > >>> They do maintain the constituent-legislator relationship, *for the >>> subset of voters who voted in favor of the legislator*. For the remaining >>> Droop quota of un- or under-represented constituents the nonexistence of >>> the constituent-legislator relationship is also maintained. >>>

Re: [EM] STV+AV

2012-02-04 Thread Bryan Mills
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > 2012/2/4 Bryan Mills > >> > From: Bryan Mills >>> > To: David L Wetzell >>> > > If there are 3-5 seats STV then the number of candidates won't >>> > proliferate >>> > > too much and there'd be 5-7 places to vote. This would keep things >>>

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Jameson Quinn
> > > > With information like this it should be (in principle) a quite >> mechanical process to check all relevant available methods against the >> targets and environment description, and then pick the best method (and >> ballot format) (and guidance to the voters on how to vote). >> > > really?

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 2/4/12 4:01 PM, Juho Laatu wrote: On 4.2.2012, at 19.14, robert bristow-johnson wrote: so, i have a few questions for everyone here: 1. do we all agree that every voter's franchise is precisely equal? 2. if each voter's franchise is equal, should we expect any voter that h

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Juho Laatu
On 4.2.2012, at 19.14, robert bristow-johnson wrote: > so, i have a few questions for everyone here: > >1. do we all agree that every voter's franchise is precisely equal? >2. if each voter's franchise is equal, should we expect any voter >that has an opinion regarding the candi

Re: [EM] STV+AV

2012-02-04 Thread Jameson Quinn
2012/2/4 Bryan Mills > > From: Bryan Mills >> > To: David L Wetzell >> > > If there are 3-5 seats STV then the number of candidates won't >> > proliferate >> > > too much and there'd be 5-7 places to vote. This would keep things >> > > reasonable. >> > >> > To get reasonable proportionality wi

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Andy Jennings
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, robert bristow-johnson < r...@audioimagination.com> wrote: > On 2/4/12 4:12 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: > >> On 02/04/2012 06:47 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: >> >> On 2/3/12 11:06 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: >>> >>> No, he's saying that when the CW and th

Re: [EM] STV+AV

2012-02-04 Thread Bryan Mills
> > > From: Bryan Mills > > To: David L Wetzell > > > If there are 3-5 seats STV then the number of candidates won't > > proliferate > > > too much and there'd be 5-7 places to vote. This would keep things > > > reasonable. > > > > To get reasonable proportionality with only 3-5 seats per distri

Re: [EM] Jameson: Repeating my statements

2012-02-04 Thread Jameson Quinn
2012/2/4 MIKE OSSIPOFF > > (By the way, Middle-When-Needed and Stepwise-When-Needed probably fail FBC. > Of course, if they do, then I withdraw > those suggestions.) > > Jameson: > > You said: > > Please repeat them [statements about MJ strategy]. (Doing so in the 1st place > would have saved u

[EM] Jameson: Repeating my statements

2012-02-04 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
(By the way, Middle-When-Needed and Stepwise-When-Needed probably fail FBC. Of course, if they do, then I withdraw those suggestions.) Jameson: You said: Please repeat them [statements about MJ strategy]. (Doing so in the 1st place would have saved us both time). [endquote] No, what would

[EM] Universality of top-count-conditionality. MTAOC alone. Stepwise-When-Necessary. Conditional in Condorcet?

2012-02-04 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
I abbreviate Middle-When-Necessary as MWN. Though, as I've mentioned, mutuality-conditionality a la MTAOC pseudocode, and by MMT, and by GMAT are all (it seems to me) mutually incompatible as options in an Approval election, conditionality by top-count is compatible with each one of those, as o

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 2/4/12 4:12 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: On 02/04/2012 06:47 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 2/3/12 11:06 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: No, he's saying that when the CW and the true, honest utility winner differ, the latter is better. I agree, but it's not an argument worth making, be

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Juho Laatu
On 4.2.2012, at 11.12, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: > On 02/04/2012 06:47 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: > >> On 2/3/12 11:06 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: >> >>> No, he's saying that when the CW and the true, honest utility winner >>> differ, the latter is better. I agree, but it's not an argume

Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet

2012-02-04 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 02/04/2012 06:47 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 2/3/12 11:06 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: No, he's saying that when the CW and the true, honest utility winner differ, the latter is better. I agree, but it's not an argument worth making, because most people who don't already agree will thi