Re: [EM] voter strategy & 2-party domination under IRV voting

2005-08-18 Thread Juho Laatu
Hello James, I continued the chain of thoughts a bit. On Aug 14, 2005, at 17:59, James Gilmour wrote: Juho Laatu Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:50 PM Since then I have learned to respect also the good sides of two-party systems like stable governments and ability to drive clear policies. T

Re: [EM] Expressing pairwise preferences

2005-08-18 Thread Juho Laatu
Hello Dave, Few remaining thoughts on this chain of mailings. Maybe not that much of interest to all anymore (this got already quite detailed), but here they come. BR, Juho On Aug 14, 2005, at 17:49, Dave Ketchum wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:24:48 +0300 Juho Laatu wrote: See my comment

[EM] range ballots chew up slots; "unsupported" range voting claims

2005-08-18 Thread Warren Smith
As was recently pointed out, it is correct that with range ballots run on ordinary plurality voting machines, slots (e.g. "levers" on NY-style machines) get "chewed up" 10 times faster than with plain plurality voting. Assuming 10 levels. With L levels, L times faster. Consequently if enough el