Re: [EM] Divided Majorities - Number Votes Matrix - Left Vote Shifts

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Ossipoff
DNOW: Be more specific about your suggestion for dealing with divided majority. On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:35 PM, dn...@aol.com wrote: Divided Majorities - Number Votes Matrix - Left Vote Shifts Divided Majorities Standard divided majority problem - A, B and Z 26 ABZ 25 BAZ 49 Z??

Re: [EM] Divided Majorities - Number Votes Matrix - Left Vote Shifts

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Ossipoff
I'd said: Yes, choosing the median of all the proposed values is a good way of making a numerical choice. ...probably, unless it would have a problem that I don't know about. The public could thereby vote directly on such things as the various marginal tax-rates, for various income-brackets; and

[EM] Scoring (was Re: OpenSTV 2.1.0 released)

2012-09-18 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 09/16/2012 02:35 PM, Juho Laatu wrote: On 16.9.2012, at 9.57, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: (More precisely, the relative scores (number of plumpers required) become terms of type score_x - score_(x+1), which, along with SUM x=1..n score_x (just the number of voters), can be used to

Re: [EM] Divided Majorities - Number Votes Matrix - Left Vote Shifts

2012-09-18 Thread DNOW1
In a message dated 9/18/12 9:28:22 AM, email9648742 writes: Be more specific about your suggestion for dealing with divided majority. --- The Number Votes Matrix - Left Votes Shifts is for a zillion divided majority examples. Another one - 18 ABCZ 17 BCAZ 16 CABZ 49 Z??? 100