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> 3- Thus the goal would be determine the best or at least better structure
>> of govt./voting to require the greatest majority support possible.
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> now it depends on what you mean by "greatest majority support possible".
> if it's the same as the least disappointment amount of voters pos
On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Sand W wrote:
I just joined this list and some of it is kind of bewildering.
i suspect that i am both a source and recipient of things
bewildering. but i like it better than ESF or any of the discussion
lists associated with specific methods.
1-what is your
I don't doubt that most of the EM list is interested in the future of
elections (I know I am!), but voting methods have wide application in
fields far removed from the voting booth. In computer science, it has been
used for pattern recognition, spam-resistant web searching, neural
networks, book an
On this list you might find a majority that considers the Condorcet
criterion to be a good target for typical majority oriented single-
winner elections. If one of the candidates is so strong that it would
beat any other candidate in a pairwise comparison, then that candidate
should win. Con
The people on this list generally believe that there voting systems are both
important and interesting. We're interested in both technical discussions
and activism.
However, while some of us (including me) support IRV as a step forward, a
majority of us (also including me) think that there are vot
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 exclusive/co
