At 11:21 AM 11/18/2009, Terry Bouricius wrote:
Abd wrote
"Under Robert's Rules, if a voter writes something on a ballot, the voter
has voted, and the vote is counted in the basis for majority, "
This is not necessarily correct.
Bouricius raises a doubt, but does not impeach the general asser
To: "Warren Smith" ; "election-methods"
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [EM] Is there a PR voting method obeying "participation"
criterion?
At 01:08 PM 11/17/2009, Warren Smith wrote:
>This seems to be an open question at present. But it m
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 01:08 PM 11/17/2009, Warren Smith wrote:
It is "fair" if symmetric under permuting the candidates and voters.
Conjecture: there does not exist a fair multiwinner proportional
representation
voting method obeying participation.
I don't know how to apply "fair."
At 01:08 PM 11/17/2009, Warren Smith wrote:
This seems to be an open question at present. But it might be pretty
easy to prove or disprove.
A multiwinner voting method "obeys participation" if an extra voter,
by voting honestly, cannot make the election result worse (in her
view) than if she ha
This seems to be an open question at present. But it might be pretty
easy to prove or disprove.
A multiwinner voting method "obeys participation" if an extra voter,
by voting honestly, cannot make the election result worse (in her
view) than if she had not voted.
(If you remove a winner and repla