>> From: MIKE OSSIPOFF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [EM] Regarding the interesting website
I was doing something worthwhile (reading an article on the
spread of sharia in Nigeria) when this arrived, and now I am
going to return to it.
>> I'd said:
>> >>I checked out the website you referre
I'd said:
>>I checked out the website you referred to, but are you
>>sure that , when electing an executive who has the power
>>to veto the decisions of a legislature, it's more
>>important to elect someone who has a large 1st-choice base
>>than to elect someone who doesn't have majorities aga
Forest Simmons wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Anthony Simmons wrote:
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>
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>>[Forest wrote in part]
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See the discussion of this result at the URL
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~livingst/Banzhaf/#results
>>Hmmm, I'm a bit short on time presently, so I haven't worked
>>this out, but it
>> From: "MIKE OSSIPOFF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Interesting Website
>> I checked out the website you referred to, but are you
>> sure that , when electing an executive who has the power
>> to veto the decisions of a legislature, it's more
>> important to elect someone who has a large
>> From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [EM] The Electoral College (was Interesting use of Borda count)
Interesting discussion of power index, but kind of misses
what I was talking about, which is that when people talk
about the power of the states within the EC, they tend to
equ
How many of those candidates would someone vote for or rank?
Maybe about 1, if they have any taste. And, you know, sometimes the
best statement that you can make is to not vote, unless NOTA is
added.
Don't rank all the candidates just because rank balloting is used.
Including someone in your r
Markus wrote:
I consider Pattanaik and Peleg's Regularity to be the natural
probabilistic extension of Arrow's IIAC. You can disagree, but
you cannot say that this is "incorrect". The fact that Pattanaik
and Peleg call this extension "Regularity" and not "IIAC" is
quite irrelevant for the curr
In response to Jurij Toplak's suggestion that the EC protects federalism:
The American concept of federalism is that (1) powers should be divided
between national and state governments and (2) the popular will should be
balanced against equal representation of each state.
The equal standing of t
A report from political reality land about a multi-choice election.
How many choices would an *average* voter vote for if he/she had the chance
to do so ???
Field of 15 Run for New Orleans Mayor
By BRETT MARTEL
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Few were willing to run for mayor while Marc Morial - a
p
Alexander Small wrote:
>
> [...] There is the
> perception that the EC favors the GOP, and that shapes many people's
> opinions. The split decision that I describe would disabuse the GOP of
> that illusion. Of course, then the Dems might oppose popular elections.
> Oh, well, who knows?
>
>
It seems strange to many people that the smallest states have 3 votes in
Electoral college although they should not have them according to the "one
person - one vote" rule. However, all the federal countries tend to give
small states some more power than they should have. There is a good reason
fo
Forest's example of 3 states with 48, 49, and 3 votes was good, but I think
the 51-49 case isn't quite as good, because it's just a case of majority
rule. Probably a better case of a state with zero power would be this:
3 states have 4 votes, 1 state has 3 votes, total of 15 votes. The state
wi
There are about 25-30 nominees. That makes it more like hybrid of Approval
and Borda voting. You mentioned strategic voting - there is a large
possibility of strategic voting since countries do not give the votes at the
same time. They call to the TV show one by one and give their votes. So for
ex
Dear Mike,
you wrote (26 Jan 2002):
> According to that article, Markus was incorrect to say that
> the information that Random Ballot fails IIAC, as defined by
> Markus, would revolutionize the authors' understanding of one
> of Arrow's criteria. That's because Pattanaik & Peleg don't
> call tha
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:32:12 -0700
Subject: Fwd: Some new, some old, all humor
>A good pun is its own reword.
>
> Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.
>
> A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
>
> A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.
>
> My
01/27/02 - Re: PR/STV Hybrid for multi-winner?
Adam Tarr, you wrote: "Proportional Representation (PR) has the obvious
advantage of matching the expressed voter preference as closely as possible
in a multi-winner election.
The problem with PR, in my opinion, is that it limits the voter preference
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