Re: [EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

2001-03-09 Thread Forest Simmons
I see your point. And I also see that there could be several different reasonable versions of Voter's Choice, any one of which would be an elegant way to resolve the lack of concensus on method. The amount of variation in ballot types would have to be a function of the time and energy that was av

Re: [EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

2001-03-08 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
>don't you think that it would be easier to infer >all of the other ballots from CR than from a pure ranking? Yes, but maybe some people will only vote CR, and some will only vote a ranking, and some will only vote Approval. So it could be necessary to infer any of those ballots from the other

Re: [EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

2001-03-08 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
>don't you think that it would be easier to infer >all of the other ballots from CR than from a pure ranking? Yes, but maybe some people will only vote CR, and some will only vote a ranking, and some will only vote Approval. So it could be necessary to infer any of those ballots from the other

Re: [EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

2001-03-08 Thread Forest Simmons
Good discussion, but don't you think that it would be easier to infer all of the other ballots from CR than from a pure ranking? On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote (in part): > > >I like Voter's Choice for situations where people don't agree on a > >voting system. Of course if they don't a

[EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

2001-03-07 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
I've just tried to post this, but when I did, I received a reply from eskimo.com, giving me instructions on subscribing & unsubscribing. A message that I sent later posted, and this message didn't, and so I'm assuming that it won't post, and so I'm re-sending it: >I like Voter's Choice for sit