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 by
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
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
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
