Re: [EM] Re: Range Voting and Cardinal Ratings Runoff

2004-12-18 Thread Brian Olson
On Dec 17, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Forest Simmons wrote: Forest wrote ... Suppose that there are only three candidates, and you think that your compromise C has a significantly better chance than your favorite F of winning against the candidate D that you dislike the most, and that there is a good chan

[EM] Children and other animals

2004-12-18 Thread Bart Ingles
I have a friend who gets daughter dressed for preschool every morning by presenting her with exactly two complete outfits, and then telling her to "choose". Apparently after making a choice, the girl is more likely to accept getting dressed without a fight, and so far hasn't demanded a third o

Re: [EM] thread from IRV-Freewheeling

2004-12-18 Thread Bart Ingles
Eric Gorr wrote: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff-freewheeling/message/829 Some of the more "interesting" comments by James Salsman "Because Condorcet voting can more easily be manipulated by strategic voting (i.e., marking whichever of the top-two candidates you do not want to win dead

[EM] thread from IRV-Freewheeling

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Gorr
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff-freewheeling/message/829 Some of the more "interesting" comments by James Salsman "Because Condorcet voting can more easily be manipulated by strategic voting (i.e., marking whichever of the top-two candidates you do not want to win dead last after people

Re: [EM] Re: Range Voting and Cardinal Ratings Runoff

2004-12-18 Thread Kevin Venzke
Forest, --- Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > I think I'd better note that I didn't come up with "Runoff Without > > Elimination" as a name or idea... I recall old archive messages > > where "RWE" was discussed by Mike Ossipoff and Donald Davison. > > But you did invent "Gradual