RE: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-23 Thread James Gilmour
Russ Paielli Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 5:12 AM As far as I know, STV is a generalization of IRV for multi-winner elections. Or maybe IRV is special case, simplification of STV. (Which was the chicken and which was the egg?) So the reasons for IRV's popularity apply to STV to some

Re: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-23 Thread Eric Gorr
Russ Paielli wrote: Eric Gorr eric-at-ericgorr.net |EMlist| wrote: Russ Paielli wrote: What is too complicated? Nobody knows the exact answer to that question, of course, but let me tell you what I think. I think you can forget about any method that cannot be explained in two or three sentences

Re: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-22 Thread Eric Gorr
Russ Paielli wrote: What is too complicated? Nobody knows the exact answer to that question, of course, but let me tell you what I think. I think you can forget about any method that cannot be explained in two or three sentences understandable by persons of average intelligence. Maybe that can

Re: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-22 Thread Russ Paielli
Eric Gorr eric-at-ericgorr.net |EMlist| wrote: Russ Paielli wrote: What is too complicated? Nobody knows the exact answer to that question, of course, but let me tell you what I think. I think you can forget about any method that cannot be explained in two or three sentences understandable by

Re: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Venzke
Russ, Ok, let me consider CDTT methods in this context. --- Russ Paielli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is too complicated? Nobody knows the exact answer to that question, of course, but let me tell you what I think. I think you can forget about any method that cannot be explained in two

Re: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-21 Thread Russ Paielli
Kevin, First, did I really write publicly acceptability in the title? I always seem to manage to goof up something. Kevin Venzke stepjak-at-yahoo.fr |EMlist| wrote: Russ, Ok, let me consider CDTT methods in this context. --- Russ Paielli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is too complicated? Nobody

Re: [EM] publicly acceptability of election methods

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Venzke
Russ, --- Russ Paielli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin, First, did I really write publicly acceptability in the title? Yes. I just copied your mistake. Suppose there are no majority-strength cycles. Those are supposed to be rare, right? So say there are none. Then CDTT,FPP can be