On May 17, 2012, at 2:09 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
Kristofer:
You expressed concern about uncertainty about how to vote in
Approval. Let me re-word what I was trying to say about that:
First, for simplicity let’s say that you belong to a faction that
all prefer and vote as you do. What
Of course, if there are 2 sets of candidates such that the merit difference
within the two sets are negligible compared to the merit difference between
the sets, then it's clear that defeating the worse set is more important
than choosing among the better set.
So I mis-spoke when I said that, i
On 17.5.2012, at 4.39, Dave Ketchum wrote:
> Oops - took so long stripping Mike O's zillion words that I forgot to respond.
>
> On May 16, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
>> On May 15, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Juho Laatu wrote:
>>> On 15.5.2012, at 11.11, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
Juho a
On 17.5.2012, at 0.41, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
> I liked Finland's elegant open list system when I read about it.
>
> But didn't I read that you use d'Hondt? That under-represents small parties.
> Sainte-Lague is more perfectly proportional and more fair.
Yes, Finland uses D'Hondt (and D'Hondt
