Samuel Merrill's 1988 book Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic
refers to a 1981 paper by Nicolaus Tideman called The Relative Attractiveness
of Voting Rules. Merrill writes, "Tideman studied . . . the resistance to
strategic voting of the single-vote plurality, Borda, Hare, and Black
D- Locke in the below is referring to the old depopulated *rotten boroughs*
dating from the early Middle Ages (having very few voters controlled by a
very few landlords -- many in the House of Lords) used to elect many members
of the English House of Commons.
It was not until the 1833 U.K.
Short of forcing everyone into a single district, with resulting guaranteed
huge campaign costs for small parties or obscure candidacies, it's NOT
necessarily easier to maximize overall geographic fitness or 'utility' of an
apportionment scheme by using PR.
By the way, usual PR presumes that
Take a look at:
H.P. Young, Measuring the compactness of legislative districts,
Legislative Studies Quarterly 13 (1988) 105-116,
and the interesting article by Brian Hayes that appeared in the New Scientist.
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci96/compsci96-11.pdf
Best wishes,
Joe
Probably the simplest measure I can think of, and the most easy to justify
(at least in a simple case) is the average perimeter of each district.
Simple case: Suppose that we have a square region with uniform population
density. Draw a straight line that divides it in half.
Here's an obvious g
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Bart Ingles wrote:
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> > As an interesting side note, the nation of Sri Lanka (just south of India)
> > recently switched over to such an instant two stage runoff (we called it ITTR in
> > a thread a few months ago, for instant top two runof
Compactness means closed and bounded. All districts on planet earth are
bounded. They can be closed iff nobody lives precisely on the boundary,
so that boundary points can be in more than one neighboring district.
In other words, compactness (insofar as it is feasible) doesn't stop
Gerrymanderi
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Anthony Simmons wrote:
> I did, however, find a good piece on writing op-eds and
> letters to the editor. It's at
>
> http://www.pirgim.org/toolkit/media.html
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> It's got some pointers for writing a piece and getting it
> published.
>
> Hold on, I just remembered someth
>> You believe that Morgan Tsvangirai is a thug???
All I said was that I have not read anything about his party, except that
they oppose Mugabe. The recent Bloomberg newswire peice on the subject was
where I got the 56-42 numbers and the 33 dead. In fact, the story lists 33
dead for the entire
One solution would be to require all districts to be as convex as possible
while respecting state boundaries.
This brings up the question of how do we measure deviation from convexity?
It could be the difference in the area of the convex hull of the region
and the area of the region, or it could
>> From: "Narins, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: RE:Zimbabwe [EM]
>> However, I really don't know who the MPDC (the opposition)
>> was.
>> >> MDC. Movement for Democratic Change.
>> I knew that much. What I don't know is what they stand
>> for, or, what sort of backgrounds the
>> From: Forest Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [EM] NYTimes.com Article: French Twist: A Fair Way to Pick
>> Oscars?
>> >From my experience this is pretty typical of journalists
>> that think that they can edit content without knowing
>> diddley about the content.
>> Don't be surpri
A decent number of states have non-partisan redistricting. New Jersey's,
apparently, is a model.
Here is a list of all the procedures, but I'm sure there are better...
http://www.c-span.org/state_local/districts.asp
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This Rick Lyman got the whole thing garbled.
Steven Abrams sent me a copy of the article that he and Paul Hager
co-authored. It looks like this Lyman character thought he could improve
on it. In the process he messed it up, claiming that Condorcet invented
Approval, that Hager co-authored the b
Just over the wire
"The U.S. condemned the 2000 election in the country as having
'denied the people of Kyrgyzstan the right to exercise their
vote in a free and fair political context.' Akayev claimed 74 percent
of the the ballots cast and a third term in office."
Doesn't stop us from us
However, I really don't know who the MPDC (the opposition)
was.
>> MDC. Movement for Democratic Change.
I knew that much. What I don't know is what they stand for, or, what sort of
backgrounds their leaders have. Who funds them? Are they just another band
of thugs, who happen to the i
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The article below points out that with single-party districts elections
have all but been abolished. Even if we implement Approval or some other
reform for Congressional and state legislative races, the districts may be
so heavily stacked that the extra freedom of choice inherent in such a
reform
You might want to form a front group first ;)
My friend almost had a letter to the editor published in the NY Times.
They called him, asked if was associated with any groups, had any
credentials. He said no. They didn't publish.
:(
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From: Anthony Simmons [mailto:[EMAI
I like to look at the Election of 1860.
I guess you liked Bell? Bell was the Constitutional Union Party candidate.
They won Virginia, Tenn., Kentucky, and maybe Texas.
the CU party believed "Hey, Slavery is tearing the country apart, we are the
party of 'Slavery is not an issue'"
It was Sam Ho
>> From: Alex Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [EM] Approval Voting Op-Ed material
>> As per Anthony's advice, I expanded the pro-AV essay to
>> 800 words, more appropriate for an op-ed. I tried to trim
>> it to serve as a letter, but I couldn't decide what to
>> trim. I flesh out a few po
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