Re: [EM] Canadian politician supports "a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot"

2013-01-20 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 01/18/2013 05:18 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: 2013/1/18 Kristofer Munsterhjelm mailto:km_el...@lavabit.com>> On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the weaknesses of IRV counting will get exp

Re: [EM] Canadian politician supports "a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot"

2013-01-18 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 1/18/13 1:52 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just getting people to talk about, and think about, the possibili

Re: [EM] Canadian politician supports "a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot"

2013-01-18 Thread Jameson Quinn
2013/1/18 Kristofer Munsterhjelm > On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: > > Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the >> weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just >> getting people to talk about, and think about, the possibility of

Re: [EM] Canadian politician supports "a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot"

2013-01-17 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just getting people to talk about, and think about, the possibility of better ballots and better counting methods is

[EM] Canadian politician supports "a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot"

2013-01-17 Thread Richard Fobes
Here is an interesting development in Canada. Marc Garneau is running for the leadership of Canada’s national Liberal party, and his web page (at http://marcgarneau.ca/support-marc-democratic-reform/) says: "If elected, my proposal would be to reform Canada’s electoral system by changing our