On May 17, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
On May 17, 2004, at 12:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And if you count on the senate/parliament to set up mutually exclusive
options for a multiple choice vote, they could abuse that and make
exclusive things you might want both or more of.
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For example, it seems to me that Robert's Rules explicitly require or
assume a one-person/one-vote Plurality type of decision-making, and it
thus (naively) inconsistent with rank-order voting. Is that a fair
assessment? Further, that sort of
On May 17, 2004, at 11:14 PM, James Green-Armytage wrote:
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For example, it seems to me that Robert's Rules explicitly require or
assume a one-person/one-vote Plurality type of decision-making, and it
thus (naively) inconsistent with rank-order voting.
Hi Adam,
On May 15, 2004, at 6:59 PM, Adam Tarr wrote:
How about this:
- Bicameral legislature. I'll call the two houses senate and
house but this is just for identification purposes.
- The senate is elected by a PR method. The senate would act like
a normal legislative body, meeting in
First, some etymological junk: I don't think parliament is a good name for the
proxy assembly, since parliament implies parlay, i.e. debate, and that body will
have lots of members who don't discuss their vote with anyone. Then again,
house implies a physical location as well. Perhaps
Hi Adam,
On May 17, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Adam H Tarr wrote:
Right now, decisions are typically a force between options 2 and 3,
excluding the 'radical middle' option.
Some method of allowing the assembly to sort through options easily
would be
nice. But it's not really crucial, since (again) it
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
My concern is to ensure that the process is friendly to multiple-choice
options. My fear is that the traditional yes/no vote could easily be
used to hold the assembly 'hostage', by only giving them a choice
between the lesser of two evils. At
On May 17, 2004, at 12:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
My concern is to ensure that the process is friendly to
multiple-choice
options. My fear is that the traditional yes/no vote could easily be
used to hold the assembly 'hostage', by only giving
