Re: [EM] WDS reply to Dave Ketchum elementary questions re range voting

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Ketchum
In a different conversation your words could be useful. This one is on a different topic: WDS enthusiastically makes many assertions, expecting us to respond as if they express solid truth. I suspect many of them, but lean on one where facts are available - he claims NY's lever machines are

[EM] RE: simplifying ballots

2005-08-17 Thread Simmons, Forest
Abd ulRahman Lomax proposed: The proposal is that the ballots might be counted first as ordinary approval. If a majority appears from this process for a given candidate in a single-winner election, the candidate would be elected. If not, then the ballots would be retabulated as fractional

Re: [EM] RE: simplifying ballots

2005-08-17 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 04:51 PM 8/17/2005, Simmons, Forest wrote: Abd ulRahman Lomax proposed: The proposal is that the ballots might be counted first as ordinary approval. If a majority appears from this process for a given candidate in a single-winner election, the candidate would be elected. If not, then the