To continue what I was saying about Ranked Pairs (RP), I like
SSD, CSSD, & RP because they only drop (or decline to keep) a defeat
if it's the weakest defeat in a cycle, and that gives them compliance
with GSFC & SDSC. PC at least meets SFC.
For PC & SSD, the problem with cycles is that there m
Proportional Representation System with Hare Quotas
22 Mar 2002
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There is a very strong fixation with having 1 vote per seat in legislative
bodies.
A candidate will initially get more than, equal to or less than the Total
Votes/ Total Seats ratio.
The excess votes (or lose
First, I want to thank Forest for a number of recent instances where -
likely better and certainly more rapidly than I could myself - he has
explained and clarified my proposals.
In my opinion - see example below - the practical merit of a districting
scheme generally can NOT reduce to only a
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Michael Rouse wrote:
> chosing a winner. If there were some clear standard, we could (as others
> have suggested) solicit plans not only from computer models and the parties
> involved, but from ordinary citizens, and then choose the best one. Heck,
> you could have a distrib
Recently someone mentioned the above/below line options for voting in
Australian elections. It was mentioned that most voters just choose to
vote above the line, i.e. trust their favorite party to take care of the
details. In a way this is just designating their party as proxy to use
their vote a
- Original Message -
From: "Adam Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [EM] More on Gerrymander prevention
> Michael wrote:
>
> >Draw a line between the population centroid and the
> >voting centroid (or population median and
Michael wrote:
>Draw a line between the population centroid and the
>voting centroid (or population median and voting median), and continue until
>you have the number of districts you want. That way, roughly equal voters
>and residents would be in each district.
As you implied before, this could
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From: "Jurij Toplak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:03 AM
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>
> Most of the countries draw districts according to the total "population".
> Some draw them according to the "total
> Another way to lessen (though not eliminate) gerrymandering would be to
> apportion districts by the total number of *votes* cast in the general
> election rather than the total *population* of the United States and
divide
> by the total number of representatives. Then apportion representativ
