[EM] New tryIRV free IRV survey website online

2011-07-07 Thread Sand W
I hope everyone is interested in a new online survey site intended to prove how much better IRV-enabled surveys are than traditional one choice or approval surveys.http://TryIRV.us is the current url, and we are still correcting it and adding features.  It is based on Demochoice code.   The

[EM] : How did local IRV affect CA state elections?

2010-12-10 Thread Sand W
It would/will be great if any student of statistics will do a statistical regression on these two bay-area elections, to prove that higher voter turnout in CA's IRV-modernized cities made the difference for Kamala Harris and Jerry McNerney. This letter is in this week's east bay Express:

[EM] breakdown of Oakland mayor ballots

2010-11-13 Thread Sand W
Here are the results on an actual election: http://www.demochoice.org/dcresults.php?poll=OakMayortype=table Perata (or maybe someone in his camp) accuses the other candidates of gaming the system by promoting each other as 2nd choices. Some challengers tried to do that to IRV-leader Kriss

[EM] Greatest Majority is the future of elections

2010-09-03 Thread Sand W
I just joined this list and some of it is kind of bewildering. 1-what is your goal for elections?  I would assume that it is to have the best govt. which presumably can be identified as the system of govt. supported by the most people. 2- Since there will probably be more than one