[EM] Re: Is range voting the panacea we need?

2005-01-02 Thread RLSuter
Chris, Your arguments aren't making much sense to me. You quote one advocate of range voting regarding "regret" and majority rule and suggest that all range voting advocates say the same thing. What evidence do you have that most RV advocates say this, or even that it is what the one person you qu

Re: [EM] Re: Range Voting

2005-01-02 Thread bql
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Kevin Venzke wrote: Brian, --- Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : If a majority of all the voters prefer X to Y, then they should have a way of voting that ensures that Y won't win, without any member of that majority voting a less-liked candidate over a more-liked one. I

[EM] Three-candidate failure problems

2005-01-02 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hello, I've been looking into properties of election methods when there are only three candidates. I'm stumped by a few things, and I wonder if there are any comments on these three, especially the first one: 1. Does three-candidate MinMax(WV) (or alternatively Tideman, Schulze, or Heitzig) fail

Re: [EM] Re: Range Voting

2005-01-02 Thread Kevin Venzke
Brian, --- Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > >> If a majority of all the voters prefer X to Y, then they should have > >> a way of voting that ensures that Y won't win, without any member of > >> that majority voting a less-liked candidate over a more-liked one. > > I think IRNR has

Re: [EM] Re: Is range voting the panacea we need?

2005-01-02 Thread FL
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:26:05 +1030, Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Legyel asked me (Sat.Jan1): > > >What is the sensible and fair argument linking the minimization of > >Bayesian regret by range voting with the emotional states of voters? > > > CB: I could perhaps have omitted

Re: [EM] Re: Range Voting

2005-01-02 Thread Brian Olson
On Dec 31, 2004, at 7:00 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: Someone wrote: That'd be me. Being able to express ratings on a ballot is more expressive than only being able to express rankings. I think more expressive is a good thing. On the back end, we could silently collapse the ratings into rankings by sor

[EM] Re: Is range voting the panacea we need?

2005-01-02 Thread Chris Benham
Florian Legyel asked me (Sat.Jan1): What is the sensible and fair argument linking the minimization of Bayesian regret by range voting with the emotional states of voters? CB: I could perhaps have omitted the word "Bayesian", because that just refers to "averaged over a vast number of randomiz

Re: [EM] Did Mr May bungle 2 candidate SNTV election maths to hide the fact of 5 papers?

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Gorr
Craig Carey wrote: | Subject: [EM] Chris, Range-Voting | From Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de | Sat Jan 1 16:08:58 PST 2005 | | * Previous message: [EM] Chris, Range-Voting | * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] | | Hallo, That is an incorrec

[EM] Did Mr May bungle 2 candidate SNTV election maths to hide the fact of 5 papers?

2005-01-02 Thread Craig Carey
| Subject: [EM] Chris, Range-Voting | From Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de | Sat Jan 1 16:08:58 PST 2005 | | * Previous message: [EM] Chris, Range-Voting | * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] | | Hallo, That is an incorrect spelling of "he