Without experiential knowledge the crazies will dominate and sure enough that
is exactly what appears to be happening in the comments to the poll.
The recipe for change (IMHO of course) in the US is as follows:
1. choose the minimal change that will fix the problem.
2. create a site where peopl
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I consider it very bad to have to use a computer at all. Any system that
requires a computer to be easy to use gets a zero vote from me.
In this system I hope the items I left off the ballot were given a "zero"
value? The ran
roval still seems marginal, especially in large
elections and I think the cost for implementing, tabulating and voting is
much higher,
> Yours, Jobst
>
> Matthew Welland schrieb:
> > Thanks all for the discussion and pointers. I still can't concretely
> > conclude anyth
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 03:37:56 am Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> Matthew Welland wrote:
> > So, to re-frame my question. What is the fatal flaw with approval? I'm
> > not interested in subtle flaws that result in imperfect results. I'm
> > interested in fl
Thanks all for the discussion and pointers. I still can't concretely
conclude anything yet but here are some rambling and random thoughts based
on what was said and my prior experiences.
Plurality
Leads to two lowest common denominator parties which are not accountable to
the voters. This concl
It seems to me that approval and range voting eliminate most of the
strategic opportunity in single winner elections and the marginal
improvement of other methods is fairly small. Can anyone point me to
analysis, preferably at a layman level, that contradicts or supports this
assertion?
Or, in
