[EM] Sortition and the Delegable Proxy system

2012-01-23 Thread Bryan Mills
I've been looking at a voting system over the past week or so that I think is really interesting: a combination of the "delegable proxy" system with a sortition procedure to elect a standing legislature. My objective is to find a way to use conventional voting infrastructure to elect a proportiona

Re: [EM] Sortition and the Delegable Proxy system

2012-01-30 Thread Bryan Mills
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: > On 01/24/2012 07:28 AM, Bryan Mills wrote: >> >> I've been looking at a voting system over the past week or so that I >> think is really interesting: a combination of the "delegable proxy" >

Re: [EM] Sortition and the Delegable Proxy system

2012-01-31 Thread Bryan Mills
On Jan 31, 2012 3:17 AM, "Clinton Mead" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm < km_el...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> >> On 01/31/2012 07:14 AM, Clinton Mead wrote: >>> >>> Why not simply IRV until 500 candidates are left. >> >> >> STV would probably be better - or if yo

Re: [EM] STV+AV.

2012-01-31 Thread Bryan Mills
> > > Why STV? The original poster wanted elected representatives to have votes > > proportional to their electoral support yes? There's no need for > fractional > > transfers from elected candidates then. > > > > > > > IRV is a form of STV, but it's not my favorite. Some of the other STV > > meth

Re: [EM] STV+AV

2012-02-01 Thread Bryan Mills
>>> > Why STV? The original poster wanted elected representatives to have >>> votes >>> > proportional to their electoral support yes? There's no need for >>> fractional >>> > transfers from elected candidates then. >>> > > >>> > >>> > IRV is a form of STV, but it's not my favorite.  Some of the ot

Re: [EM] Sortition and the Delegable Proxy system

2012-02-01 Thread Bryan Mills
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:41 AM, < election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com> wrote: > On 01/31/2012 07:05 AM, Bryan Mills wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm > > wrote: > >> I think it is strategy-proof, but I wonder if people

[EM] STV+AV

2012-02-01 Thread Bryan Mills
> > Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:26:47 -0600 > From: Ken & Karla > To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com > Subject: Re: [EM] STV+AV > Message-ID: <4f2a1e97.8080...@isd.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.electorama.com

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. > &g

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 >>> >

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

2012-02-07 Thread Bryan Mills
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:52 AM, < election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: [EM] [CES #4445] Re: Looking at Condorcet > Message-ID: <4f320919.8090...@audioimagination.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 2/7/12 6:30 PM, Juho Laatu wr