DISTRICTING QUESTS: QUIXOTIC VS PRACTICAL
On this list weve lately posted a number of messages concerning
districting. At one point we called the topic automated districting - but
it should be clear that automation is a possible means, not an end, in the
design of an effective distric
At 9:01 PM -0500 1/21/04, Bill Lewis Clark wrote:
First and foremost, IRV is a change.
Change is perfectly capable of doing more harm then good.
Any change at all gets people
thinking about election system reform. That's a good thing. The natural
desire to stick with the status quo is the bigges
> IRV is not, in any way, an improvement - that is the point.
I believe Mike would agree with you, but I don't think this is as
clear-cut as you both seem to think it is.
First and foremost, IRV is a change. Any change at all gets people
thinking about election system reform. That's a good thin
At 6:40 PM -0500 1/21/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Ossipoff wrote:
Is that what happened in Australia? And don't say that IRV hasn't committed
its failures in Australia. It wouldn't show up in the data that are recorded
>and published.
What are you saying here Mike? That even though you can
Mike Ossipoff wrote:
>Is that what happened in Australia? And don't say that IRV hasn't committed
>its failures in Australia. It wouldn't show up in the data that are recorded
>and published.
What are you saying here Mike? That even though you can find none of IRV's failures in recorded and pub
Forrest Simmons wrote:
>How good can we do with a simple rule of conversion of ranked ballots to
>approval ballots?
>Given a set of preference ballots, let n1, n2, ... be the numbers of top
>rank votes for candidates c1, c2, ... , respectively. (For now assume that
>every ballot fully ranks the c
Mike,
I think you may be confused about the process of Symmetric Completion
as different from the criterion. The criterion says that the method
gives the same results whether or not the ballots are completed
symmetrically. This is met by FPP, IRV, and Margins, none of which
employ the *process*
James Green-Armytage , in his first post on CC SCRRIRVE, wrote
(Mon.Jan.19, 2004):
"these "hybrid" Condorcet methods haven't sparked my
interest yet. I prefer a "parsimonious" voting method, because it seems
that the more complexity there is in the tally rule, the more convoluted
the strategi
Another intrinsic approach:
Suppose that the census bureau published a data base representing a
network whose nodes were the voter residences and whose edges were the
streets and roads. Weights on the nodes would give numbers of voters,
weights on the edges would be either numbers of meters or st
