Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-25 Thread Juho
current proposal of counting political proportionality at national level and then using that information to elect representatives at the district level). Juho ___ All new Yahoo! Mail "Th

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-25 Thread Juho
still force the results to be geographically proportional.) Methods that measure the distance between voters and candidates in detail could lead to some interesting consequences like strategic house buying. :-) Juho

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-25 Thread Juho
e the situation in some other way). Juho ___ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html E

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-26 Thread Juho
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:38 , Raph Frank wrote: On 8/26/08, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 26, 2008, at 1:20 , Raph Frank wrote: Each candidate can register in any number of polling stations covering at most N seat's worth of population. (N=5 might be reasonable). You

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-26 Thread Juho
that would seem probable they might then try to find districts where there are no other competing candidates of the same party. This could lead to instability, or alternatively to party telling each candidate which districts to pick.

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-26 Thread Juho
One could use also the coordinates of the homes of the voters and get rid of some of the polling station location related speculation. (One would be pretty much forced to use the computerized (personal) candidate lists that I mentioned in my other mail.) Juho On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:22

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-27 Thread Juho
of represented voters equal to all representatives. In short, distribution of representatives would be close to the distribution of the voters (while still maintaining also political proportionality). Juho On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:41 , Raph Frank wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:42 P

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-27 Thread Juho
displays the personal alternatives and then prints a ballot. This solution hides the personalized nature of the ballot and still avoids the problem of voter voting for candidates that he/she should not vote. Juho On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:37 , Raph Frank wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:41 PM

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-28 Thread Juho
ght/feminist opinions. And since the three would be from a relatively small set (maybe 5 out of 100) the number of combinations might still be safe (reduce the allowed number of ranked candidates to two or one if needed). Juho __

Re: [EM] PR favoring racial minorities

2008-08-28 Thread Juho
cal proportionality split. Out of these we could elect e.g. the one where the average distance to the nearest representative is lowest. Juho My "two linked ballots" idea would probably work, but I think we can do better by using the dista

Re: [EM] Continuous elections and their interplay with power structures

2008-08-30 Thread Juho
ation to the voters on how their representatives are going to vote may be essential. There may be many different rules. Rules may be different for decisions on seats vs. decisions. I'll skip examples since this mail is already long. Juho On Aug 28, 2008, at 21:33 , Abd ul-Rahman L

Re: [EM] Geographically proportional ballots

2008-08-30 Thread Juho
mong the citizens. Many citizens feel that the parties just continue on their old tracks no matter how one votes. With party internal branches the ability of the voters to influence the political direction of

[EM] A computationally feasible method

2008-08-30 Thread Juho
nce is probably quite good. Juho ___ Now you can scan emails quickly with a reading pane. Get the new Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Free riding

2008-08-31 Thread Juho
of the favourite candidate is very high. That candidate would however be listed somewhere close to the end of the list. Juho ___ All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect

Re: [EM] A computationally feasible method

2008-08-31 Thread Juho
On Aug 31, 2008, at 15:25 , Raph Frank wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To gain even better trust that this set is the best one one could publish the best found set and then wait for a week and allow other interested parties to seek for even

Re: [EM] Free riding

2008-08-31 Thread Juho
On Aug 31, 2008, at 22:28 , Markus Schulze wrote: Juho wrote (31 Aug 2008): > Woodall free riding uses some irrelevant candidate that > is ranked first. > > Hylland free riding does not rank the favourite candidate. > > A third approach to free riding is to rearrange t

Re: [EM] Free riding

2008-08-31 Thread Juho
many round. Adjusting the order of all (numerous) candidates would probably be quite strongly guesswork. It is however quite possible reposition the second best candidate when the first favourite has low probability of becoming elected and the second f

Re: [EM] Free riding

2008-09-03 Thread Juho
On Sep 1, 2008, at 0:49 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: This particular example resembles Hylland free riding (it is an optimized version of it) but there could be also many other examples, some of which resemble e.g. Woodall free riding. Only in some special cases this

Re: [EM] Free riding

2008-09-03 Thread Juho
On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:10 , Raph Frank wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It may well be the best strategy to rank A below D in the example above if A will be elected almost certainly since the voter has an interest to guarantee that D will be e

Re: [EM] A computationally feasible method

2008-09-03 Thread Juho
On Sep 2, 2008, at 0:58 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: Here's one practical and simple approach to guaranteeing computational feasibility of some otherwise complex election methods. The original method might be based e.g. on evaluating all possible sets of n candidates and

[EM] Geographical districts

2008-09-04 Thread Juho
dance on how to vote. But this may not be a practical strategy. Juho On Sep 3, 2008, at 22:46 , Jonathan Lundell wrote: I haven't been following this thread in great detail, but I do have a question: what is the distance function actually trying to measure and minimize? What exac

Re: [EM] Free riding

2008-09-04 Thread Juho
On Sep 3, 2008, at 18:06 , Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Juho wrote: I hope this speculation provided something useful. And I hope I got the Meek's method dynamics right. Meek completely fixes Woodall free riding. That strategy takes advantage of the fact that

Re: [EM] A computationally feasible method (algorithmic redistricting)

2008-09-04 Thread Juho
tion methods are sufficient and will with good probability lead to good enough results. Are there and counterexamples to this? Juho ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from you

Re: [EM] No geographical districts

2008-09-04 Thread Juho
work, but with priorities involved too. One can e.g. be a greenish red or a reddish green. Juho On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:01 , Stéphane Rouillon wrote: Hello electorama fans, regarding that last comment, I invite those interested in non- geographical district to consider astrological

Re: [EM] Geographical districts

2008-09-04 Thread Juho
On Sep 5, 2008, at 0:52 , Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Juho wrote: I like natural districts, so one approach would be to let people say and let history decide. The reason why I find "natural" districts natural in politics is that when people feel like they

Re: [EM] Geographical districts

2008-09-11 Thread Juho
On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:13 , Raph Frank wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One simple approach would be to ask the voters directly about the (physical/mental) distances. The answers could be of e.g. Village1>Village2>Village3>... There could b

Re: [EM] No geographical districts

2008-09-11 Thread Juho
On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:26 , Raph Frank wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The simplest (not necessarily optimal) approach to implement multiple dimensions is one where you simply elect representatives starting from the ones with strongest support (e.g

Re: [EM] No geographical districts

2008-09-11 Thread Juho
On Sep 5, 2008, at 4:00 , Stéphane Rouillon wrote: Hello Juho, using age, gender or other virtual dimension to build virtual districts replaces geographic antagonism by generation antagonism. Ok, also that may happen. Each society should pick dimensions that suit them best. (I'm

Re: [EM] Geographical districts

2008-09-11 Thread Juho
group differences are also a richness (that we should try to benefit of instead of trying to eliminate them). Juho On Sep 5, 2008, at 11:54 , James Gilmour wrote: From: Raph Frank > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:17 AM On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:34 PM, James Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [EM] A computationally feasible method (algorithmic redistricting)

2008-09-11 Thread Juho
bably one can find an 80% good solution in one minute). Good performance in value/time means that general optimization works (and the method can be considered feasible in practice despite of being theoretically infeasible). Juho On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:28 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:

[EM] Qualified, wise, representative and egotistical legislators

2008-09-11 Thread Juho
ach this goal. Better keep working and we may see also results some day (not just a reform but also better representatives and better decisions). Juho On Sep 10, 2008, at 0:00 , Terry Bouricius wrote: Although it may be off-topic for a VOTING method list, I have long advocated a greate

Re: [EM] Range Voting "unbeatable"?

2009-08-31 Thread Juho
ntage of strategic voters in each method. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Range Voting "unbeatable"?

2009-08-31 Thread Juho
this point. I agree. To sum up, may I ask what you think is the key "big-picture statement" and learnings from this discussion? Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

2009-09-10 Thread Juho
steresis may well not be too problematic. Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Holding byelections with PR-STV

2009-09-10 Thread Juho
On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Raph Frank wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Juho wrote: The hysteresis function may increase the strategic opportunities since voters could trust that old representatives will be elected in any case and they could try free riding. But in real life small

Re: [EM] (Possibly) new method/request for voting paradoxes. :)

2009-10-13 Thread Juho
come from the Smith set. BR, Juho Laatu Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] (Possibly) new method/request for voting paradoxes. :)

2009-10-13 Thread Juho
On Oct 13, 2009, at 9:01 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Juho wrote: Welcome to the list! thanks. On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:48 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: it is also important to have a deterministic and monotonic measure of voter support that is

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-10-31 Thread Juho
o achieve the political balance using two-party systems if they so want.) Juho On Oct 31, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote: Ralph, I believe that you misunderstood what I was saying below. It is the relative *number* of candidates who run for office relative to the number of the voters they rep

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-10-31 Thread Juho
gh to make things happen, but sometimes they need some "help to proceed". (Also media, the scientific process and books and opinions of respected citizens may be considered to be parts of the established process.) Juho On Oct 31, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Oct

Re: [EM] (no subject)

2009-11-01 Thread Juho
limits. Large number of candidates offers the voters more power to make the choices (instead of leaving that to the party officials). - Large number of candidates and seats also supports better proportionality / representation of smaller groups. Juho P.S. Here is a very short descript

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-01 Thread Juho
o account also factors like districts and number of available candidates and parties, cutoffs, restrictions in nomination etc. Juho On Nov 1, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Oct 31, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Kathy Dopp wrote: 3. STV does *not* achieve proportional representation at

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-02 Thread Juho
On Nov 2, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Juho wrote: If the votes (and proportionality) are counted at national level that fixes the (district fragmentation related) problem. STV is at its best in small districts with small number of candidates and

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-02 Thread Juho
On Nov 2, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Nov 1, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Juho wrote: I wouldn't be as strict as saying that Droop proportionality is an absolute requirement. I'd be happy to classify all methods that approximate the principle of x% of votes means x% o

Re: [EM] (no subject)

2009-11-02 Thread Juho
Ok, these examples are sort of second level behind the hottest political arena. It makes sense not to involve party politics e.g. in decision making in the schools. Are there maybe counties/cities where the primary decision making body would have remained non-partisan? Juho On Nov 2

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-02 Thread Juho
On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Juho wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Raph Frank wrote: Districts with 7+ seats seem reasonable, and give reasonable proportionality. I guess there is some practical limit to how may candidates the voters

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-02 Thread Juho
On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Juho wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: To harp on California again: we have 53 Congressional districts, all (of course) single-seat FPTP. The distribution of Democratic and Republican

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-03 Thread Juho
rties are in other districts. There is however some tendency to end up with two or small number of parties nation wide. Juho On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: Is this acceptable PR? I hope your answ

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-03 Thread Juho
On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Juho wrote: If one really wants a two-party system and doesn't want voters to change that fact then one could ban third parties and accept only two. That would solve the spoiler problem :-). What abou

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-03 Thread Juho
On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: If one really wants a two-party system and doesn't want voters to change that fact then one could ban third parties and accept only two. That would solve the spoiler problem :-). Who is this "one"? Since

Re: [EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

2009-11-03 Thread Juho
to stay within their "own" parties without the need to abandon them or vote against them or disagree with them, just slowly changing the opinion balance within these parties.) Juho On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:45 PM, James Gilmour wrote: Kristofer Munsterhjelm > Sent: Tuesday, Nove

Re: [EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval andrange voting?

2009-11-08 Thread Juho
the basic one. - Unfortunately the model that James Green-Armytage used was not yet able to handle strategic nominations in Approval. I think cloning has an impact in Approval (clones may easily harm you). Juho Range -> give max to favourite and min to least favourite and scale

Re: [EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval andrange voting? (long)

2009-11-10 Thread Juho
groups is one of the "big problems" then also PR (and typically associated multi winner districts) could be considered. The improved single winner methods (when used in single winner districts to form a larger representative body) are one step in this direction but they will not

Re: [EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval andrange voting? (long)

2009-11-10 Thread Juho
rwise comparisons. If there is no such candidate, elect the one that needs least number of additional votes to win all others. (This is of course the famous minmax(margins) that I have promoted quite often.) Juho On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Jobst Heitzig wrote: Dear Matthew, you wrote:

Re: [EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval and range voting? (long)

2009-11-11 Thread Juho
number of candidates and with a candidate set-up that is not symmetric or well balanced Approval may well produce biased results. Methods that are capable of providing richer information (ranked methods) are likely to provide more balanced input data (and results). Juho On Nov 12, 2009, at 2

Re: [EM] strategy-free Condorcet method after all!

2009-11-14 Thread Juho
thus be some false information in the polls (or in the discussions between these three voters). Juho P.S. The A supporter could also try C>B>A in the poll. On Nov 14, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Jobst Heitzig wrote: Dear folks, it seems there is a stragegy-free Condorcet method after all -

Re: [EM] strategy-free Condorcet method after all!

2009-11-15 Thread Juho
al vote is independent of what one said in the polls. The basic procedure was thus to collect ranked votes first and only after that decide the randomish procedure / algorithm input that is then used to decide which one of the "almost tied leading candidates" wins. Juho On Nov

Re: [EM] Dectecting Clone Sets

2009-11-16 Thread Juho
the candidates (before the election)? There might be also richer connections than in a tree (e.g. based on political views and based on geography). How about allowing the neighbours to inherit the votes in any direction based on the derived "cloneness" relationships? Juho

Re: [EM] Another auto districting proposal (Crystal districting?)

2009-11-18 Thread Juho
what the final outcome should be (the criterion) can be quite simple and intuitive. (Additional criteria like favouring border lines that follow the borders of states or rivers etc. can be easily included in the agreed criterion. Maybe even higher cost of splitting cities etc.) Juho On

Re: [EM] Dectecting Clone Sets

2009-11-19 Thread Juho
andom permutations. It would be enough to define the criterion that can be used to identify the best result and accept any methods to be used to find it (also to make sure that the best result will not fall outside of the "accepted calculation rules"). Juho The ballot order

Re: [EM] Another auto districting proposal (Crystal districting?)

2009-11-19 Thread Juho
On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: Well, this approach is also complex in the sense that the general optimization algorithms may be as complex as you want, but the optimization algorithms are totally independent of the politics and the basic rules that

Re: [EM] Another auto districting proposal (Crystal districting?)

2009-11-19 Thread Juho
On Nov 19, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Juho wrote: My thinking is that it might be easier to agree about the targets rather than the whole procedure. The targets can be simpler to define. Following Raph Franks model it would be thus enough to say

Re: [EM] Another auto districting proposal (Crystal districting?)

2009-11-20 Thread Juho
t other candidates of the same party). Juho On Nov 20, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Brian Olson wrote: I agree with Juho. Define what a good redistricting result is, preferably in terms that produce a single valued numeric score, and then produce maps by whatever means you like and let the best map w

Re: [EM] A Proportionally Fair Consensus Lottery for which Sincere Range Ballots are Optimal

2009-11-21 Thread Juho
ingle method or class of methods that would be "generally best for all purposes". Juho On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Jobst Heitzig wrote: Folks, you probably overlooked that I have already described a variant which works *completely* without Random Ballot and will definitely e

Re: [EM] Condorcet strategies (was: strategy-free Condorcet method after all!)

2009-11-24 Thread Juho
ecisions and can not be fully controlled by some central entity (like a party) or by themselves and have only incomplete and changing poll information available this type of vulnerability might not cause any problems. Sincere voting could thus be the main rule in Condorcet elections despite of

Re: [EM] Helping a candidate in the case of ties

2009-11-24 Thread Juho
How about defining the positions as follows. A>B>C => A=1, B=2, C=3 A=B>C => A=1.5, B=1.5, C=3 A's position got worse in the second example. B's position got better. Juho On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: It's fairly straightforward to

Re: [EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval and range voting?

2009-11-25 Thread Juho
just saying that in many typical environments Condorcet methods are indeed "quite LNH" :-). Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Combined elections

2009-12-03 Thread Juho
the second and third group of voters) But if we combine these two elections and use ratings then we would get those combined votes (with ratings) that are listed below. I thus just derived the votes of the component elections (what they would have been) from the combined ratings. Juho On

Re: [EM] Combined elections

2009-12-04 Thread Juho
On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Raph Frank wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Juho wrote: 27: A=1 B=0 C=0 D=2 26: A=0 B=2 C=1 D=0 25: A=2 B=0 C=1 D=0 22: A=0 B=1 C=0 D=2 A would win the first Condorcet election (or Plurality or whatever common single-winner method). C would win the

Re: [EM] Combined elections

2009-12-04 Thread Juho
ty even in the presence of strategies. (maybe one can say "with certainty" if there are no strategies) Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Condorcet cycles in Romanian 2009 election?

2009-12-09 Thread Juho
e is the stability. A cycle can be said to be stable if one can collect sufficient justification that explains why it is likely to be and stay stable (can be based e.g. on available polls (that cover a sufficiently long time span) or a theoretical credible model that explains why people feel this wa

Re: [EM] Sincere Condorcet Cycles

2009-12-15 Thread Juho
en one step more credible. Also general loyalty and fighting spirit may make party members quite loyal to their own candidate even if the candidate would not be an exact match with the opinions of all of the party supporters. Juho If all voters agree about an ideal position (like in the centr

Re: [EM] just to let you know ...

2010-01-06 Thread Juho
st fix the tabulation method). Juho On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:47 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: Terry and i agree on many things and I am convinced we have a common goal: fair elections that represent the will of the electorate and do not penalize voters for voting non-strategically. an

Re: [EM] just to let you know ...

2010-01-06 Thread Juho
corresponding ones developed). Juho On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:59 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: In Burlington at least the arguments for Condorcet should be straight forward. People are already ok with ranked ballot based voting. Many of them may feel that in the last election

Re: [EM] just to let you know ...

2010-01-07 Thread Juho
entation does have a place in the process. Better to throw the argumentation in although the discussion and its outcome may not fully follow the intended logic. Juho On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Terry Bouricius wrote: Juho, Actually, the opposition to IRV in Burlington is predominant

Re: [EM] Pirate Party of Sweden adopts the Schulze method

2010-01-07 Thread Juho
They also said: > Condorcet-Schultze med 30% kvotering = Condorcet-Schultze with 30% quotas I just wonder if that adds something to the basic Schulze method. Juho On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, the Schulze ranking will be used as defined in the Wikipe

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-09 Thread Juho
(There could be also strategic thoughts on what will happen in the next elections to these candidates and their parties. This kind of future related considerations could lead to using only values 0 and 100 also for all those candidates whose support level one wants to influence (although they c

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-10 Thread Juho
Burlington election is that it probably managed to capture quite well the sincere opinions of the voters (they didn't anticipate that some of them would have been better of if they had not voted sincerely). This makes it easier to estimate how various methods would behave in this cit

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-10 Thread Juho
t heard of any (IRV specific) strategic advices that would have been given to the voters before the election. So I believe the votes were quite sincere rankings. In the next IRV election things might be a bit different. Juho -- r b-j r...@audioimagination.com "

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-13 Thread Juho
societies from some points of view). Juho P.S. One more reason is that Condorcet promoters seem to be lazier that IRV promoters :-). Condorcet has made some progress in the academic circles but not yet in politics. Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-15 Thread Juho
nted methods are quite similar from campaigning point of view, and that with a clear definition of core support we could better see how well different methods can meet those requirements. Juho On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Terry Bouricius wrote: Juho, That was a good summary of IRV

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-15 Thread Juho
On Jan 14, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Juho wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:14 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: it still is a curiosity to me how, historically, some leaders and proponents of election reform thunked up the idea to have a ranked- order

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality (Dave Ketchum)

2010-01-16 Thread Juho
On Jan 16, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Kathy Dopp wrote: On Jan 14, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Dave Ketchum wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Juho wrote: 2) IRV is easier to count manually. Condorcet gets quite tedious to count manually when the number of candidates and voters goes up. One can use some

Re: [EM] Pirate Party of Sweden adopts the Schulze method

2010-01-18 Thread Juho
The votes seem to be available. => http://data.piratpartiet.se/Data/DisplayInternalPollVotes.aspx?PollId=2 Juho On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Markus Schulze wrote: Hallo, here are the preliminary results of the primaries: http://www.piratpartiet.se/nyhe

Re: [EM] I need an example of Condorcet method being subjected to the spoiler effect if any

2010-01-21 Thread Juho
at strategic voting will not be meaningful in the planned elections then one should pay attention also to performance with sincere votes, not only to the resistance against strategies. Different elections may also have different requirements, so the question of which one of the methods is best m

Re: [EM] I need an example of Condorcet method being subjected to the spoiler effect if any

2010-01-21 Thread Juho
On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Juho wrote: What is good in all the common Condorcet methods is that their vulnerabilities to strategies (and their differences in general) may very well be so small in typical real elections (large, public

Re: [EM] I need an example of Condorcet method being subjected to the spoiler effect if any

2010-01-21 Thread Juho
winners) could be spoilers. (Typically term spoiler refers to minor candidates since these discussions typically refer to a two-party set- up, but the corresponding scientific term might or might not be limited to minor candidates and/or this particular set-up.) Juho Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] I need an example of Condorcet method being subjected to the spoiler effect if any

2010-01-23 Thread Juho
of this type of argumentation in regular discussion makes sense. Let's hope people will be more analytical in this sense in the future. Juho On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: Many of the criteria would be nice to have. One must however remember

Re: [EM] I need an example of Condorcet method being subjected to the spoiler effect if any

2010-01-23 Thread Juho
On Jan 23, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Juho wrote: On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: Jonathan Lundell wrote: In that case it might be a good starting point to define "spoiler", so we know what we've found when we find it. What

Re: [EM] Professorial Office Picking

2010-01-25 Thread Juho
work so that if there is for example some room that all consider to be the best then that room would be given to the most senior voter. Any chances to work? Juho P.S. There could be also preferences like "I want a room next to my closest colleagues". If one wants to support als

Re: [EM] Professorial Office Picking

2010-01-25 Thread Juho
ht be used as a stick to prompt all voters to come to a unanimous agreement using an iterative or "bidding" process. Yes, if the resulting level of randomness is acceptable in the results. In this case the randomness of the results may be bigger than in the first proposed approac

Re: [EM] Professorial Office Picking

2010-01-25 Thread Juho
On Jan 25, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 05:59 AM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote: Here's one simple approach. - all voters rank all the rooms - use Borda like personal utility values => last room = 0 points, one but last = 1 point etc. (also other than this kind of linear

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-25 Thread Juho
ates from minor parties (with no strong "core support") to win. I'm not saying that that is a general target, but if someone wants to set that target then this type of approach could be used. The point is that Condorcet could also emulate, approximate or even improve some of

Re: [EM] Professorial Office Picking

2010-01-25 Thread Juho
On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 03:13 PM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote: Sure. But equal ranking must be allowed, otherwise noise is introduced. Borda with equal ranking (and therefore empty ranks, otherwise equal ranked votes are reduced in strength) is Range. Why not just

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-25 Thread Juho
On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 04:05 PM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote: I reply to myself since I want to present one possible simple method that combines Condorcet and added weight to first preferences (something that IRV offers in its own peculiar way). Let's a

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-26 Thread Juho
On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 07:22 PM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote: There are many (working) uses for an approval cutoff in ranked ballots. But on the other hand they may add complexity and confusion and not add anything essential. => Careful consideration nee

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-26 Thread Juho
On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Chris Benham wrote: Juho wrote (25 Jan 2010): "I reply to myself since I want to present one possible simple method that combines Condorcet and added weight to first preferences (something that IRV offers in its own peculiar way). Let's add an approval

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-26 Thread Juho
On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 03:04 AM 1/26/2010, Juho wrote: On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 07:22 PM 1/25/2010, Juho wrote: There are many (working) uses for an approval cutoff in ranked ballots. But on the other hand they may add

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-27 Thread Juho
On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 08:10 PM 1/26/2010, Juho wrote: The scenario that you described requires some goodwill among the voters. That's correct. We seem to imagine that better voting systems will produce better results even if people continue to

Re: [EM] Range strategy pathological example (was Re: IRV vs Plurality)

2010-01-27 Thread Juho
If Range becomes Approval like then you might add also the weaknesses of Approval in your list. Juho On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: I understand the limitations of my example. I still think it is a real weakness for

Re: [EM] IRV vs Plurality

2010-01-27 Thread Juho
On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Chris Benham wrote: Juho wrote (26 Jan 2010): "It may well be that this method can be characterized as "not fully Condorcet and Approval strategy added". I'm not quite sure that the intended idea of "mostly Condorcet with core support rew

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