[EM] Summary of strategy enhancements for Condorcet wv

2004-05-25 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
First, I don't believe that Condorcet wv has a serious strategy problem. We've often discussed the defensive truncation strategy. Here's how I often word it: The only way you can steal the election from other voters is if they were trying to help you. Doesn't that make you proud of yourself?

[EM] Other 2-balloting Condorcet wv enhancements

2004-05-25 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Sorry, my summary of strategy enhancements for Condorcet wv wasn't complete, because I left our some of the other 2-balloting enhancements. RMDD is a 2-balloting enhancement. There are others too. I've suggested that, if there's a circular tie in which each tie-member is majority-beaten by

Re: [EM] IRV's majority winner. What if we let the people choose?

2004-05-25 Thread Forest Simmons
Back when there was a push to get an IRV initiative on the Oregon ballot I sat in on some of the FairVoteOregon meetings, including the one in which the final wording of the initiative and the wording of the voter information pamphlet entry were being hashed out. All the rhetoric was repetition

[EM] collective budget setting proposal

2004-05-25 Thread James Green-Armytage
Dear election methods fans, In some cases it may be interesting to engage in a collective budget setting process, where everyone controls an equal share of a government budget, and is able to allocate that money to the project of their choice. Choices of different projects should

Re: [EM] The new poll

2004-05-25 Thread Brian Olson
On May 26, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Chris Benham wrote: Regarding Ballot Styles, what is the difference between Rated and Range Rated ? I forget what someone else called it here, but the short short version is that when Rating a candidate on the ballot, you can represent your uncertainty