[EM] Election thinking,

2012-04-24 Thread Adrian Tawfik
Dear Mr. Ossipoff and colleagues, Thank you for your help.  Clearly, I will not be able to function as a moderator of these article discussions because I am very new to most of this material.  But from my perspective, the conversations have been very helpful.  I think it is important for me to

Re: [EM] Election thinking,

2012-04-22 Thread Dave Ketchum
Mr. Ossipoff writes much about Approval, saying that is as far as we can get. I say elections are important and that readers should respond to the importance. I go thru the series, hitting on the reasons for stepping thru Plurality, Approval, and Condorcet, suggesting that Condorcet is a

Re: [EM] Election thinking,

2012-04-22 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Replying to Dave: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote: > Seemed to me Mike left out some important thoughts - can we do better? > > On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote, as: > Article, with the added paragraph and some better wording > >> >> Adrian and EM: >>

Re: [EM] Election thinking,

2012-04-22 Thread Adrian Tawfik
I think it is good to have the issue analysed from multiple perspectives.  If someone want to write a different article than Mr. Ossipoff, than we can definitely incorporate it on the website.  I'm not sure what you believe Mr. Ossipoff left out, can you clarify?  I think the best thing is to pr

[EM] Election thinking,

2012-04-22 Thread Dave Ketchum
Seemed to me Mike left out some important thoughts - can we do better? On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote, as: Article, with the added paragraph and some better wording Adrian and EM: Elections are important to many organizations - and important that they help the vot