On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 09:31 -0700, Simmons, Forest wrote:
> In a recent message, partly quoted below, Adam Tarr outlined an NP hard
> optimization approach to redistricting. He suggested that a genetic
> optimization algorithm might be used for practical purposes.
>
> I bele
In his response under this subject heading Mr. Lomax seemd to think that I was
advocating Cumulative Voting, then he offered what amounted to a plausibility
argument for my assertion that Cumulative Voting is strategically equivalent to
Plurality. I'm slightly miffed that he would imply that I
Mr. Lomax wrote:
"Asset Voting, per se, was invented by Warren Smith, though it strongly
resembles delegable proxy (which seems to have been invented independently
by a number of people, I know I did not get it from anyone else). "
I reply:
It's true that the name "Asset Voting" was invented b
In a recent message, partly quoted below, Adam Tarr outlined an NP hard
optimization approach to redistricting. He suggested that a genetic
optimization algorithm might be used for practical purposes.
It has been suggested before that in such cases anybody with a proposal found
by any means (
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:13:54 -0400 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote, in part:
At 09:05 PM 8/18/2005, Warren Smith wrote:
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 fa
There seem to be quite a few activist Richie's and Ritchie's
around. Another I know of is Mark Ritchie, president of the
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (www.iatp.org).
-Ralph
In a message dated 8/20/05 3:29:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< On 8/19/05, [EMAIL
Title: Re: A class of ballot set with "unbeaten in mean lotteries."
Jobst and All:
I did make one
(inconsequential) boo boo. The normalization factor for the weights x+y-z,
y+z-x, and z+x-y should be 1/N, not 1/(2N), since the sum of these weights is
x+y+z=N.
To physically carry out t
Dear Forest!
You wrote:
> Let x, y, and z be positive integers such that x+y+z=N, and max(x,y,z) where N is the number of some large population of voters, and the ordinal
> preferences are divided into three factions: x: A>B>C y: B>C>A z: C>A>B
> Further assume that the cardinal ratings
On 8/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just for clarification, the Executive director of the Center for
> Voting and Democracy is Rob Richie, not Scott Ritchie. Note
> that the last names are spelled differently. For CVD contact
> information and names other other staff people,
