Re: [EM] Re: Hybrid Beats-All/Approval v. Straight Approval

2001-10-28 Thread Bart Ingles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anybody watching on TV about the lifestyle of Taliban folks (with their circa > 6,000 B.C. politics) in poor suffering Afghanistan ??? > > Not too much apparent discussions of election method reforms among them. If the Taliban is forced out of power, I could see s

Re: [EM] Hybrid Beats-All/Approval v. Straight Approval

2001-10-28 Thread Bart Ingles
Forest Simmons wrote: > > Consider the case of a beats-all check followed by your random ballot > suggestion: > > Voters are to submit ranked ballots with truncations allowed internally as > well as at the extremes (i.e. where there is no preference equal ranks are > allowed). > > Suppose that

[EM] IRV vs Plurality Vote with a Runoff

2001-10-28 Thread Anthony Simmons
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [EM] IRV vs Plurality Vote with a Runoff >> Does the fact that IRV uses a preference ballot, >> instead of a repeated ballot, make it less manipulatable? >> Whatever you believe the answer is, can you prove it by >> example or argument? Well, about