Re: [EM] Critique of FairVote's "approval voting" report

2011-10-15 Thread Jameson Quinn
The critique now has a number of comments in the margin, from a number of people, including responses from Rob Richie (probably the original author of the report). At the bottom, I've added my critique of the pervasive error Fairvote (Richie?) makes. Here is a copy of my critique: Strategy in Appr

Re: [EM] Critique of FairVote's "approval voting" report

2011-10-11 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
robert bristow-johnson wrote: dunno if i can do much critiquing of that particular doc. what i like is in FairVote's page: http://www.fairvote.org/single-winner-voting-method-comparison-chart where they claim that IRV will do a better job getting the Condorcet winner than does Condorcet (some

Re: [EM] Critique of FairVote's "approval voting" report

2011-10-10 Thread robert bristow-johnson
26 To: "electionsciencefoundation" , "EM" Subject: [EM] Critique of FairVote's "approval voting" report I would like to make a detailed critique of the FairVote report theyve put up at approvalvoting.blogspot.com and rangevoting.com. I believe that every single one of

[EM] Critique of FairVote's "approval voting" report

2011-10-10 Thread Jameson Quinn
I would like to make a detailed critique of the FairVote report they've put up at approvalvoting.blogspot.com and rangevoting.com. I believe that every single one of the conclusions of that report is dangerously wrong. I've created a google doc