Forest Simmons wrote:
>>I have a slight quibble with the phrase "ranked ballots." If you take it
literally, it sounds like it is referring to a set of ballots that have
somehow already been ranked relative to each other, instead of a set of
ballots that can be used by voters to rank the candidate
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Bryan Ford wrote:
> Toplak Jurij wrote:
> >Preferential voting; n. Example of a non-sequiter.
>
> Good point. "Preferential voting" sounds to me like the kind of opaque term
> with as many syllables as possible that might have been invented by the
> academic voting intelligen
James Gilmour wrote:
Paul Kislanko > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:52 AM
> A "voting system" is a punched-card, a touch-sensitive CRT,
> paper with circles that require a #2 pencil, or a gorgeous
> 1950s-era big box with lots of levers to play with including
> the big ones that would autom
Bryan Ford in response to my post about splitting the analysis of methods
into two pieces:
>>You're quite right to point out that both IRV and Condorcet (and Approval
and
most other "alternative" methods) critically depend on changing the
balloting
scheme to something other than simply "choose o
On Aug 19, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Paul Kislanko wrote:
A “voting system” is a punched-card, a touch-sensitive CRT, paper with
circles that require a #2 pencil, or a gorgeous 1950s-era big box with
lots of levers to play with including the big ones that would
automatically turn all the little ones for
Paul Kislanko > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:52 AM
> A “voting system” is a punched-card, a touch-sensitive CRT,
> paper with circles that require a #2 pencil, or a gorgeous
> 1950s-era big box with lots of levers to play with including
> the big ones that would automatically turn all the
Condorcet in 12 words:
Ranked ballots. Simulate full round-robin tournament. Unbeaten candidate
or weakest-beaten.
IRV in 12 words:
Ranked ballots. Eliminate candidate with fewest top choice votes until one
remains.
Weighted pairwise in 12 words:
Rated ballots. Unbeaten in pairwise, or beaten wi
Toplak Jurij wrote:
>Preferential voting; n. Example of a non-sequiter.
Good point. "Preferential voting" sounds to me like the kind of opaque term
with as many syllables as possible that might have been invented by the
academic voting intelligentsia precisely for the purpose of keeping ordinar
On Friday 20 August 2004 01:00, Paul Kislanko wrote:
> Election Method:
>
> n. A combination of a procedure for collecting voter preferences and an
> algorithm for counting votes.
>
> >From a purely analytical standpoint, these can be dealt with separately
> > and
>
> I believe it is much easier t
