On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:
> The only tie-breaker that I can think of in common usage (it gets
> written in to proposed laws) which would cause the implementation of IRV
> to fail ICC would be what I have called "deterministic"...where all
> candidates tied for least votes are eliminate
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:
> At 10:11 AM -0500 11/12/04, Warren Schudy wrote:
>
> > 1) Did the ballot only allow each voter to give the top three choices?
> > I suspect that restriction would significantly decrease the
> > effectiveness of IRV.
Yes, three choices. The City Charter sa
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Bart Ingles wrote:
> I'm surprised the complete ballots were available in a form that would
> allow pairwise tallies.
Yeah, that was pretty cool. I don't know whose idea it was, but the Center
for Voting and Democracy has been closely involved in the whole process.
(They wro
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Brian Olson wrote:
> Between this story and all of the snafu going on with the DRE voting
> machines, my appraisal of the quality of software engineering in this
> country is going down. Even Microsoft could do better.
As a software engineer I'm certainly apalled but not real
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I'm a bit mystified by the problems they ran into trying to do the instant
run-off, since a full pairwise tally only took a few seconds on my old
laptop. Of course the software and hardware designs are proprietary so we
can't review them to understand what happened and how
