Re: [EM] How to run opl on Psion 3a?

2001-04-08 Thread David Catchpole
Sounds quite a bit like QuickBasic/QBasic, which are BASIC type languages with named subroutines, etc. Means there may be a prospect of us forcing our programs on each other!... On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: Well, the closest I could get to information was

[EM] Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff

2001-04-08 Thread Anthony Simmons
Subject: [EM] A pairwise elimination satisfying SFC,SDSC INSTANT PAIRWISE ELIMINATION RUNOFF I know this is going to sound really silly, but with the majority of the electorate, the most important factor is what it's called. "Intant Runoff" sounds like it was chosen by an advertising

Re: [EM] Instant Pairwise Elimination Runoff

2001-04-08 Thread Martin Harper
nah - an advertising agency would call it something like "Votex" or "Democratum"... ;-) I still like "Instant Round Robin" for the Condorcet-like methods, though. Anthony Simmons wrote: Subject: [EM] A pairwise elimination satisfying SFC,SDSC INSTANT PAIRWISE ELIMINATION RUNOFF I know

[EM] Approval Vote ballot paper sought; rejected by 'one man one vote' rules

2001-04-08 Thread Craig Carey
At 2001.04.04 17:47 +0100 Wednesday, Martin Harper wrote: Approval for Tom, and others who reckon one-man-one-vote is solely referring to how an invisible genie moves your vote around, and is absolutely sacred - I call it "Instant Approval Poll and Plurality Voting". 1) collect approval

Re: [EM] Condorcet cyclic drop rule

2001-04-08 Thread Markus Schulze
Dear Mike, you wrote (7 Apr 2001): But I think most would agree that his (= Condorcet's) words were often un-specific enough so that we can still call PC SSD "Condorcet's method", as well as Ranked-Pairs, whether defeat-support or margins. (And BeatpathWinner also, due to its equivalence

[EM] Voter's Choice final Approval scores.

2001-04-08 Thread Anthony Simmons
From: MIKE OSSIPOFF Subject: [EM] Voter's Choice final Approval scores. But does anyone agree that it would be interesting to add the option of voting on the absolute merit of the methods too? That wasn't part of my nomination, and so I won't add it to the ballot unless someone else wants

Re: [EM] Approval Vote ballot paper sought; rejected by 'one man one vote' rules

2001-04-08 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Craig Carey wrote: Before Approval is commented on, can an exact high quality PNG (or JPG or GIF) image of the typical Approval Vote voting paper be posted?. Last time I was inquiring into that, Rob Lanphier ruled that Mike Ossipoff did not have to answer that question (I

Re: [EM] Approval Vote ballot paper sought; rejected by 'one man onevote' rules

2001-04-08 Thread Martin Harper
Craig Carey wrote: Regarding the definition of "one vote per voter", it can have 3 aspects: (1) the vote (with weight 1) shan't have an effective weight that is greater than 1, and (2) the vote shan't have an effect consistent with it having a negative weight [i.e.

Re: [EM] How to run opl on Psion 3a?

2001-04-08 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Sounds quite a bit like QuickBasic/QBasic, which are BASIC type languages with named subroutines, etc. Interesting. I wasn't sure how much BASIC had been updated. It might not have much in common with old BADIC except for the name. This reminds me of what someone said in the '70s: "I don't

[EM] Another one-man-one-vote proof

2001-04-08 Thread Anthony Simmons
From: Martin Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EM] Approval for Tom Approval for Tom, and others who reckon one-man- one-vote is solely referring to how an invisible genie moves your vote around, and is absolutely sacred - I call it Instant Approval Poll and Plurality Voting. [...]