[EM] "Third Parties Presidential Debate"... and debates in general

I just thought that this was generally interesting, and I'm not sure how long it's going to stay on the C-Span site, so here it is, perhaps for a limited time only... http://tinyurl.com/44edh I happened upon this debate between Cobb and Badnarik from a week or so ago, which happene

[EM] California Dreamin', Take 4

Hi all, So, I've been trying to figure out how to get people who don't particularly care about election reform to actually think through the issues involved. This is what I came up with; the goal is to try to express the basic ideas and motivation without getting bogged down in details. I welco

Re: [EM] Re: Demo of n-rank ballot for U.S. president

Rob Brown wrote: I have some sliders I've worked on getting really slick for a different project, maybe they can be adapted for this (all I did was change the captions on them to be presidential candidates): http://www.karmatics.com/slider/vote.html Opretty. I'll contact you offline ab

[EM] slashdot discussion

Any slashdotters here? There is a discussion now which can draw some exposure to election issues, http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/09/13/1249231.shtml?tid=4&tid=219 I posted the following, which if it gets any more mod points it might be selected as one of the 10 questions for libertari

[EM] Re: Demo of n-rank ballot for U.S. president

Rob Lanphier robla.net> writes: > Thanks for the feedback. Before replying, I'm going to point out a > new, alternate version of the script: > http://electorama.com/2004/condorcetballot/?rate=scale I don't like it as much as the original, at least not in its current form. Interesting nonethele

[EM] Re: Demo of n-rank ballot for U.S. president

This is really sweet. The only minor quibbles are 1) when you sort it, the default is to put highest scoring candidate at the bottom rather than the top, so you have to click again (or scroll down the page) to see what you did. 2) Since you can easily specify "ties", the sorting can be a bit m

Re: [EM] Demo of n-rank ballot for U.S. president

Hi Brian, Thanks for the feedback. Before replying, I'm going to point out a new, alternate version of the script: http://electorama.com/2004/condorcetballot/?rate=scale One other tweak is the mouse over ghosting of potential changed values on stars. Comments inline: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Su