Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>(5) Nader says, "Why not? Let's take it to the Supreme Court."
>
>(6) The Supreme Court says the tradition of conceding has withstood all
>challenges, but has never been spelled out. Let's spell it out in the way
>that will serve the best interest of the
There is a long tradition of candidates conceding victory before all of
the votes are counted, once they lose hope of winning.
Has anybody ever challenged this tradition in court?
I remember that at one point Gore conceded to Bush, and then he changed
his mind, so ultimately the Supreme Court app
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Forest Simmons wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Rob LeGrand wrote:
>
> > Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted
> > until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should
> > win the following Bucklin election?
> >
> > 25:Bro
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Rob LeGrand wrote:
> Here's a question I thought about quite a bit a while ago but never posted
> until now that there's talk of Bucklin on the list: Which candidate should
> win the following Bucklin election?
>
> 25:Brown>Jones>Davis>Smith
> 26:Davis>Smith>Brown>Jones
> 49:J
>I implemented the PR-enforcing Condorcet algorithm I described in my recent
>mail to this list, as part of the CIVS voting web service. If you would like
>to try it out (and give me some testing!), visit the following URL and vote on
>the "ice cream assortment" election:
>
>http://www5.cs.cornell
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Bart Ingles wrote:
>
> In general, it's a good thing. However the NEED or INCENTIVE for
> strategic voting is sometimes a bad thing, if it results in Duvergerian
> equalibria (Plurality, Runoff, Instant Runoff), or in artificial ties or
> "random" outcomes (Borda).
... or if
I implemented the PR-enforcing Condorcet algorithm I described in my recent
mail to this list, as part of the CIVS voting web service. If you would like
to try it out (and give me some testing!), visit the following URL and vote on
the "ice cream assortment" election:
http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~
