Re: [EM] ¿Why do some absolutely hate ScoreVoting and insist on Ranked Ballots?

2012-04-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 04/13/2012 09:11 PM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote: ¡Hello! ¿How fare you? I have had interactions with people on this list hating rated ballots. I have a question for them: If the ballot would allow both ratings and rankings, ¿would that be acceptable? The ballot could allow ranking or ratings with eq

Re: [EM] ¿Why do some absolutely hate ScoreVoting and insist on Ranked Ballots?

2012-04-14 Thread ⸘Ŭalabio‽
2012-04-14T05:34:03Z, “Robert Bristow-Johnson” : > On 4/13/12 5:46 PM, “⸘Ŭalabio‽” wrote: >> 2012-04-13T:17:09Z, “Robert Bristow-Johnson” >> : >>> On 4/13/12 3:11 PM, “⸘Ŭalabio‽” wrote: I have had interactions with people on this list hating rated ballots. >>>

[EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

2012-04-14 Thread ⸘Ŭalabio‽
¡Hello! ¿How fare you? It is tedious to rank hundreds of candidates, but sometimes monster is on the ballot and all unranked candidates are last. If the field is so polarized that the voters idiotically refuse to rank other serious candidates other than their candidate

Re: [EM] Comments on some rank methods

2012-04-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 04/10/2012 10:20 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: Kristofer: You wrote: On 04/09/2012 11:31 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: I've said seemingly contradictory things about IRV. It's particularly flagrant FBC failure makes it entirely inadequate for public political elections, more so than Condorcet, w

Re: [EM] Comments on some rank methods

2012-04-14 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 4/14/12 5:13 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: On 04/10/2012 10:20 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: On 04/09/2012 11:31 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: I've said seemingly contradictory things about IRV. It's particularly flagrant FBC failure makes it entirely inadequate for public political elections

Re: [EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

2012-04-14 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 4/14/12 3:45 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote: ¡Hello! ¿How fare you? It is tedious to rank hundreds of candidates, but sometimes monster is on the ballot and all unranked candidates are last. If the field is so polarized that the voters idiotically refuse to rank other serious

Re: [EM] ¿Why do some absolutely hate ScoreVoting and insist on Ranked Ballots?

2012-04-14 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 4/14/12 3:42 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote: >but your mapping makes the ranked ballot synonymous with the score ballot. that is my point. In all voting systems, one counts votes at some point. ScoreVoting is just more explicit about it. no, Score voting does *not* count votes. it tot

Re: [EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

2012-04-14 Thread Andrew Myers
On 4/14/12 8:31 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 4/14/12 3:45 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote: ¡Hello! ¿How fare you? It is tedious to rank hundreds of candidates, but sometimes monster is on the ballot and all unranked candidates are last. If the field is so polarized that the voters idiotically re

Re: [EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

2012-04-14 Thread Jameson Quinn
2012/4/14 Andrew Myers > On 4/14/12 8:31 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: > >> On 4/14/12 3:45 AM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote: >> >>> ¡Hello! >>> >>> ¿How fare you? >>> >>> It is tedious to rank hundreds of candidates, but sometimes monster is >>> on the ballot and all unranked candidates are last. If the

Re: [EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

2012-04-14 Thread ⸘Ŭalabio‽
2012-04-14T12:31:48Z, “Robert Bristow-Johnson” : > all this is complicated crap that gunks up elections. it has an > ice-cube's chance in hell. I disagree. Perhaps I am unclear: 1: Lincoln 2: Washington 3: Evil-Indicator Candidate 4: S

Re: [EM] A modification to Condorcet so that one can vote against monsters.

2012-04-14 Thread Michael Rouse
On 4/14/2012 5:42 AM, Andrew Myers wrote: On 4/14/12 8:31 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 4/14/12 3:45 AM, ?U(alabio? wrote: ¡Hello! ¿How fare you? It is tedious to rank hundreds of candidates, but sometimes monster is on the ballot and all unranked candidates are last. If the field is

[EM] Jameson reply #1, 4/14/12

2012-04-14 Thread Michael Ossipoff
I'd said: >* That would be much better than the electowiki, where anything that anyone*>* >posts can be deleted, replaced or modified. Someone on EM*>* told me that you >mis-defined a method at the electowiki.*>** You said: I'd love to know what you're talking about. [endquote] You mean abou

[EM] Jameson reply #2, 4/14/12

2012-04-14 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Jameson: You wrote the 3 paragraphs quoted immediately below. But noice that, immediately below your 3 paragraphs, in your own posting, and in my copy below, are the words wich which I had just finished answering an objection about the same as yours, and clarifying what i was talking about: Your

[EM] Kristofer reply, 4/14/12

2012-04-14 Thread Michael Ossipoff
>**>>* You keep saying anything without FBC is automatically a no-go. How >do*>>* you know that?*>**>* [endquote]*>**>* It is a country-specific >observation, regarding the electorate of the U.S., where I*>* reside. I don't >know that about any other country, though there is evidence for it in

[EM] Oops! Typo.

2012-04-14 Thread Michael Ossipoff
I said: "With an electorate that doesn't need FBC, and who are clear and honest with themselves about what they consider to be acceptable--that's when and how FBC can be a fine method. "...because it is entirely defection-proof, and because it meets the Mutual Majority Criterion." Of couse, when

Re: [EM] Oops! IRV.

2012-04-14 Thread Dave Ketchum
I choke when I see IRV called "fine" - it too easily ignores parts of what the voters say. For example, look at what can happen with A being much liked, yet IRV not always noticing: 20 A 20 B>A 22 C>A Joe ? Condorcet would see A elected by 62 votes (plus, perhaps, Joe's 63rd). IRV would