On the mathematical-exploration side of things:
2011/5/26 fsimm...@pcc.edu
From: Kevin Venzke
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Hi
If you are looking for simplicity then maybe also minmax should be
considered since it (the margins version) simply measures the number of
required additional voters to beat all others.
I agree. If minimax is twice as likely to be adopted, because it's simpler,
and gives 95% of the
On 26.5.2011, at 7.10, matt welland wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 01:07 +, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
matt welland wrote ...
The only strategy in
approval is to hold your nose and check off the front runner you
despise because you don't want the other front runner you despise
more to
On 26.5.2011, at 4.35, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
being that they choose the same winner in the case that there are only 3
candidates in the cycle, i would recommend Tideman over Schulze (sorry
Marcus) for the simplicity of explanation. while getting a Condorcet cycle
is expected to be
Hi Forest,
--- En date de : Mer 25.5.11, fsimm...@pcc.edu fsimm...@pcc.edu a écrit :
The main problem is determining (through the disinformation
noise) who the front runners really are.
Suppose the zero-information front runners to be candidates
A and B, but that the media created front
From: Kevin Venzke
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Hi Forest,
--- En date de?: Mer 25.5.11, fsimm...@pcc.edu
a ?crit?:
The main
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
On May 24, 2011, at 6:42 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list for a
advice on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State Legislature. He finally settled
on CSSD beatpath. As near
fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list for a advice on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State Legislature. He finally settled on CSSD beatpath. As near as I
know nothing came of it. What would we propose if we had
matt welland wrote:
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:42 +, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
On the other hand Approval requires reliable polling information for
informed strategy. This fact makes Approval vulnerable to
manipulation by disinformation.
Is this a generally accepted truth? I don't think I
For a legislature one could use also multi-winner and proportional methods, but
I think the question was what single-winner method to recommend. (I'd probably
recommend proportional methods for most multi-winner elections, unless the
community explicitly wants to have a two-party system.)
On May 25, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Andrew Myers wrote:
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
On May 24, 2011, at 6:42 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list
for a
advice on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State
matt welland wrote ...
The only strategy in
approval is to hold your nose and check off the front runner you
despise because you don't want the other front runner you despise
more to win.
The main problem is determining (through the disinformation noise) who the
front runners really are.
- Original Message -
From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:31 pm
Subject: Re: [EM] remember Toby Nixon?
To: fsimm...@pcc.edu
Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com
fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM
list
On May 25, 2011, at 9:17 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Being who I am, I would either pick Ranked Pairs or CSSD
(Beatpath,
Schulze): the former if it's more important that it can be
explained
easily, the latter if precedence is more
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 01:07 +, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
matt welland wrote ...
The only strategy in
approval is to hold your nose and check off the front runner you
despise because you don't want the other front runner you despise
more to win.
The main problem is determining
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list for a advice
on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State Legislature. He finally settled on CSSD
beatpath. As near as I
know nothing came of it. What would we propose if we had another opportunity
like
I think DYN is my new favorite practical proposal. It's simple and it would
work beautifully.
The one downside of that system would be the possibility of granting too
much power to a minority kingmaker. For instance, a 4% candidate could have
the power to swing the election to either one of two
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:42 +, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list for a advice
on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State Legislature. He finally settled on
CSSD beatpath. As near as I
know nothing came of it.
Hi,
--- En date de : Mar 24.5.11, matt welland m...@kiatoa.com a écrit :
What is CW? Us part time readers would be forever
grateful if some
kind soul would put a magic decoder ring on the wiki.
CW is the Condorcet winner. This is a candidate who would beat any other
candidate head-to-head.
On May 24, 2011, at 6:42 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
About six years ago Toby Nixon asked the members of this EM list for
a advice on what election method
to try propose in the Washington State Legislature. He finally
settled on CSSD beatpath. As near as I
know nothing came of it. What
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