You guys from back east have no freak'n idea? Do you? "Go around a mountain." Please examine the road distance between Mammoth Lakes CA and OakHurst CA....
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Raph Frank
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Feb 20, 2012 10:22 am
... In theory, you could take that into account. However, the more complex you make the algorithm, the harder it is to prevent loopholes that can be...
... -- http://www.distancebetweencities.net/oakhurst_ca_and_mammoth-lakes_ca/route Indicates the road distance is about 3 times the crow-fly distance. There...
Our dismal voting system Sacramento Bee editorial Posted: 02/19/2012 11:03:47 AM PST Approximately 24 million, one of every eight, active voter registrations...
I find your goal of creating districts that are statistically likely to be party neutral is worthy. But its not the only goal. Districts will by uniform...
One of my pet causes is antibiotics put into animal feed as a matter of course by the ton. The govt should ban that, as everybody has been saying for...
Warren created 2 classes of examples of dramatic IRV pathologies. 1. The IRV winner is top-ranked by exactly 2 voters (out of 2^k +1 for any k>1). For every...
--Steve, these are very nice examples. ... --optimistic... --also, while many IRV problems do occur with pretty large probability, I am dubious that this is...
Mitt Romney accuses Rick Santorum of `dirty trick' robocall By Philip Rucker, Washington Post LIVONIA, Mich. -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney...
N=43623575184339996059537425773119366447006380455838\ 696504055889999185302903791148393125043181272726633463298672436846034128 and N+1, both are "smooth",...
... Classic Bucklin allowed equal ranking, as I recall, in any rank but the first. I see no reason to prohibit equal ranking in Bucklin. Count All the Votes. ...
My mention of equal ranking as being necessary to add vital information to Bucklin ballots was, I believe incorrect. The problem highlighted in my example...
Regarding what has to be sent from each precinct, my assumption was that a voter must rank all the candidates. If so, then, for k candidates, k^2 numbers must...
... Bucklin can be thought of as a method of analyzing a Range ballot, and could use a pure Range ballot, it will be Bucklin-ER, with the number of ranks equal...
Summary: Stephen was correct here. ... To talk about Bucklin in a way that is seriously different from how Bucklin was actually implemented, but not to specify...
... Not true. Virginia does not allow write-ins on primary ballots. That's why supporters of Gingrich and Santorum were so upset this year. Neither got enough...
... Ah, Someone is Wrong on the Internet. There is a technical issue here. This isn't a public election, it's one of those weird hybrids, which we could look...
on the eve of the GOP presidential primary, poll of 1256 "likely republican primary voters" out today finds 52% of the GOP voters in Mississippi & 45% in...
It was televised on CSPAN with the pro & anti sides argued by prominent constitutional law professors, lawyers, etc. This is sort of a preview of the supreme...
Uses of materials in a form consisting of particles with at least one dimension less than 100 nanometers (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter) are...
Micron size particles definitely can pose big risks, e.g. in air where they are a major cause of death, but you did not give any example where nanometer size...
... One of my references is about such a case involving 7 people in China. See Rebecca Smith, "Nanoparticles used in paint could kill, research suggests",...
¡Hello! ¿How fare you? We require candidates to get the squareroot of the number of voters to get on the ballot with writeins allowed. Let us look at an...
While Europe exercises the precautionary principle (guilty until proven innocent)for new products, the US continues to place private profit above the welfare...
This anti Elizabeth Warren ad by Karl Rove's superpac "Crossroads GPS" is called by them an "issue ad" not a political ad aiming to help defeat Democrat Warren...
Keith Judd, who is serving a 17.5-year prison sentence for extortion at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, took 41 percent of the vote...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/15/carlos-texas-innocent-man-death based on http://www3.law.columbia.edu/hrlr/ltc/ describes how Texas executed Carlos...
