Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 01:02:23 -0400 Eric Gorr wrote: Thinking about this some more and based on a private comment from James, I think the only natural division that might actually garner general agreement is to have a single division...multi-winner and single-winner methods. Certainly multi- vs

Re: [EM] Wikipedia / ballot taxonomy

2004-06-05 Thread James Green-Armytage
Eric Gorr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thinking about this some more and based on a private comment from James, I think the only natural division that might actually garner general agreement is to have a single division...multi-winner and single-winner methods. Allow things like whether a method

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread James Green-Armytage
Tom Ruen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reading some of the replies here, it would appear what is apparent to me is not apparent to others. The separation of single vote methods and multiple vote methods would seem a clear one at least to me. I think I understand what you're getting at, Tom,

RE: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread James Gilmour
Tom Ruen wrote: Does anyone know a single locale anywhere in the world that has political elections for single winners that uses a multiple vote method? Adam Tarr replied: Several online groups of nontrivial size use Condorcet, and Approval is used by international organizations with

RE: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread Adam Tarr
James Gilmour wrote: Are you, Adam, suggesting that Condorcet is not a one person, one vote system? No voter can give more than one vote to any one candidate. When it comes to any decision, ie pair-wise comparison, each voter's vote counts for only one candidate. That would seem to satisfy

RE: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread James Gilmour
I wrote Or did you have in mind the situation when a Condorcet cycle exists, so that the vote of a voter who has marked more than one preference counts for more than one candidate at the same time? In that particular situation one might also argue that the voter's second preference was

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Adam, you wrote (5 June 2004): Approval is used by international organizations with tens of thousands of members (including the IEEE). The IEEE (ca. 377,000 members) abolished Approval Voting in 2002. Today, the largest organization that uses Approval Voting is the Mathematical

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread Tom Ruen
Someone identified only by IP address modified the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributionstarget=128.211.150.75 Would someone like to take the credit? My category one vote method (where voters are limited to a single selection) was converted to a Up/Down

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-04 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
On Jun 4, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: Thought people here would be interested in this message... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff-freewheeling/message/779 Thanks, I'd missed that change. Perhaps people here could help on the taxonomy question:

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-04 Thread Eric Gorr
At 6:51 PM -0700 6/4/04, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: On Jun 4, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: Thought people here would be interested in this message... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/instantrunoff-freewheeling/message/779 Thanks, I'd missed that change. What I was most interested in was his

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-04 Thread Eric Gorr
At 11:58 PM -0400 6/4/04, James Green-Armytage wrote: Did Tom actually change the Wikipedia page? I didn't find the changed page when I looked. I hope that he didn't change it. Yes, he did. I can see the changes there now. -- == Eric Gorr = http://www.ericgorr.net =

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-04 Thread Eric Gorr
At 11:58 PM -0400 6/4/04, James Green-Armytage wrote: So far, I don't fully understand why is IRV a single vote method, Borda count a multiple vote method, and Condorcet a pairwise vote method, when they are all ranked ballot single-winner systems that can be conducted in a single round. There's