Re: [EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:12 AM 6/16/2005, Kevin Venzke wrote: Does this mean you feel a system is "unfair" unless *every* voter can select a representative? That sounds difficult to implement. Yes, it *seems* that way. But, in fact, this is standard practice in corporate governance. Every shareholder can either

Re: [EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-16 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hello, --- Abd ulRahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > At 10:36 AM 6/15/2005, Chris Benham wrote: > >>Since Mike has stated that the purpose of AERLO is for >>"acceptable/unacceptable" voters to enter below the acceptable set of >>candidates, I suppose there's no reason not to >>call

Re: [EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-15 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 10:36 AM 6/15/2005, Chris Benham wrote: Why stop at only two elections?". I don't know any good answer to that. One of my general points is that elections, especially elections for representatives, are inherently unfair, for they almost guarantee that some voters will end up unrepresent

Re: [EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-15 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 06:12 PM 6/14/2005, Jobst Heitzig wrote: What I meant was this: When a voter expressed that s/he prefers A to B, we interpret this to mean that if s/he could choose between A and B, she would choose A. Now what do we think the voter would choose when s/he put A and B at equal ranks? Do we assu

[EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Benham
Mike, You wrote: What's important about strategy is the mininimization of _need_ for strategy. That's how strategy is important. In wv or MMPO, if you truncate to deter offensive strategy, the only importance of that deterrence is that it keeps you from needing more drastic defensive strateg

[EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Benham
Mike, You wrote: What's important about strategy is the mininimization of _need_ for strategy. That's how strategy is important. In wv or MMPO, if you truncate to deter offensive strategy, the only importance of that deterrence is that it keeps you from needing more drastic defensive strateg

RE: [EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-14 Thread Kevin Venzke
Mike, --- MIKE OSSIPOFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I notice that Jobst, Kevin, and someone whose initials I didn't recognize, > strongly disagree with having AERLO as an option. > > To those 3 people, I say: The nice thing about an option is that it's > optional. You don't have to use it.

[EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-14 Thread Chris Benham
Jobst, In answer to a question from Mike Ossipoff About the part about equal ranking resulting in candidates having the same probabililty of winning: It's impossible for me to give two candidates equal probability of winning by ranking them equal. Did the question mean "equal effect on their wi

Re: [EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-14 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear Mike! Thank you for taking the time to have a look at the questionaire and for your comments. You wrote: > It asked if a method should force people to vote honestly. I answered > "--" because the freedom to vote honestly is important, rather than > being forced to. I did not meant "force" w

[EM] The wiki questionaire

2005-06-13 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
A few comments about the questionaire: It asked if a method should force people to vote honestly. I answered "--" because the freedom to vote honestly is important, rather than being forced to. I added "to allow people to vote honestly", just below that. But, to clarify the meaning, today I