Re: [EM] Voting as duty (was ties & truncation)

2005-09-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
Puzzling where this comes from. If the voters are to vote, they still need to decide who to vote for. These committees look like a lot of work - remember that there are many elections on a normal election day - some perhaps with districts as small as one precinct. Cure for this nonsense is f

Re: [EM] Voting as duty (was ties & truncation)

2005-09-15 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 05:17 PM 9/14/2005, Simmons, Forest wrote: (1) Pick 400 registered voters at random. Give them time off work, and have them study the candidates carefully and decide a tentative winner by some reputable method (like DMC, Shulze, Approval, Asset Voting, etc.) It will definitely be worth the

[EM] Voting as duty (was ties & truncation)

2005-09-14 Thread Simmons, Forest
Title: Re: [Condorcet] Ties & Truncation: Information Loss The main reason that "lazy" voters don't take the time to study up on and carefully rank all of the candidates is that they know that in these large scale elections the chance that their vote will be pivotal is practically nil.   S