Re: [EM] Asset voting and so forth, in practice

2009-11-02 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:20 AM 11/2/2009, Michael Allan wrote: If I understand you Abd, we're currently developing the tools for voters to do essentially what you describe. And we've made some progress recently: Drafting media: http://t.zelea.com/wiki/Toronto:Pollwiki Voting engine: http://t.zelea.com:8080

[EM] Asset voting and so forth, in practice

2009-11-02 Thread Michael Allan
If I understand you Abd, we're currently developing the tools for voters to do essentially what you describe. And we've made some progress recently: Drafting media: http://t.zelea.com/wiki/Toronto:Pollwiki Voting engine: http://t.zelea.com:8080/v/w/ Bird's eye view: http://t.zelea.com/wi

Re: [EM] Asset Voting

2008-10-19 Thread Raph Frank
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Greg Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting point... > > Will there be factorial as many candidates? No, but there is a point of decreasing returns. Is 10 options is better than 1 option, but 100 options isn't that much better than 10. > > Since the vote

Re: [EM] Asset Voting

2008-10-19 Thread Greg Nisbet
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Raph Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Greg Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Iterative systems are based on "conditional" votes, meaning their >> relative values change with regard to what has "happened". For >> example, your vo

Re: [EM] Asset Voting

2008-10-19 Thread Raph Frank
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Greg Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iterative systems are based on "conditional" votes, meaning their > relative values change with regard to what has "happened". For > example, your vote shifting to a less preferred candidate in IRV is a > result of a more pre

[EM] Asset Voting

2008-10-18 Thread Greg Nisbet
Is asset voting a good thing? Let's review. The CRV supports it on the basis of obeying all sorts of wonderful properties. http://math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/multisurv.pdf My intitial response to this is that Asset Voting is only able to achieve such compliance through poverty of expression.