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From: "Adam Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: RE: Democratizing the Senate (II)
> Demorep may be a doomsayer, but he has a point here. Convincing people of
> an extreme change to the way people are elected
Demorep may be a doomsayer, but he has a point here. Convincing people of
an extreme change to the way people are elected to the Senate would be a
tough task. Moreover, this would require a Constitutional amendment, as it
conflicts directly with the 17th Amendment:
"The Senate of the United
Alex wrote in part-
I came up with a proposal that conforms much more easily to Article V (no
state shall lose its equal suffrage in the Senate without its consent). It
isn't an ideal democratic method, but it is a step in the right direction.
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D- How about ZERO Senators per gerrymander Sta
I came up with a proposal that conforms much more easily to Article V (no
state shall lose its equal suffrage in the Senate without its consent). It
isn't an ideal democratic method, but it is a step in the right direction.
Elect half of the Senate on the basis of one per state, elected by the
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On Sat, 4 May 2002, Adam Tarr wrote:
> At 05:23 PM 5/3/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >The Gibbard-Satterthwaite result doesn't rule out Alex's SVM (Small Voting
> >Machine) when you take into account that the voting machine is supposed to
> >apply the OPTIMAL strategy, which is sometimes a probabilistic
On Mon, 6 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Alex Small wrote:
> Forest wrote:
>
> >The Gibbard-Satterthwaite result doesn't rule out Alex's SVM (Small Voting
> >Machine) when you take into account that the voting machine is supposed to
> >apply the OPTIMAL strategy, which is sometimes a probabilistic mixtur
Forest wrote:
>The Gibbard-Satterthwaite result doesn't rule out Alex's SVM (Small Voting
>Machine) when you take into account that the voting machine is supposed to
>apply the OPTIMAL strategy, which is sometimes a probabilistic mixture of
>pure strategies requiring coin tosses, die throwing, or
