Pork by Any Other Name . . . By Michael Grunwald Sunday, April 30, 2006; B01 Remember the "Bridge to Nowhere"? Last fall, after House Transportation Committee...
... We continue to be terminally naive about the real nature of the problem. The problem is not even what this article calls the "porkers." They are just doing...
The following is from Dr. Michael P. Frank, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, ... Warren, Maybe this is already answered on your...
... not just declare that if a voter gives no score for a candidate at all, it is implicitly the same as giving some fixed default score, say a value in the...
... Wait a minute. 76% of the voters are "radical extremists?" Sorry, this is a completely warped usage of "extremist." By definition, an extremist is a member...
... Your "opponents," Warren? You should mean "your friends," those who were telling you, with substantial unanimity, that Range Voting did not have a...
well, I think I agree with everything Abd Lomax said in his latest 2 posts replying to Mike Frank, more or less. Abd raises (and has before) the interesting...
This is a proposed amendment to the LP Colorado Constitution, which I will try to present at the convention May 13. Any comments welcome. Cheers, - Jan # 13 -...
This morning, USA Today cover story reports that the "National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of...
1. It is interesting and disturbing that the NSA program apparently was going to have difficulty with internet based telephony, so therefore, the the companies...
... What does this have to do with Range Voting? ... :-) A technical point. The information existed already, collected by the phone companies. They apparently...
I was at the LPCO convention May 13, trying to get them to adopt Score Voting (a.k.a. Range Voting) for selecting candidates to run for public office, and for...
... The elephant in the living room is that, under many election methods, if a candidate you vote for doesn't win, you might as well have stayed home.... your...
... I think you are right, it can and should be made shorter. I think it's important that voters understand how to vote. But the voter instructions don't need...
Took long enough, but thanks to a generous and wise man who helped, http://www.RangeVoting.org now exists. (It should not matter if you omit the www or fail...
... I can anticipate Warren's reaction to *this*. aarrgghh! Just after somebody bought the domain rangevoting.org for him! For about $9 per year, the domain...
A bunch of mining disasters and near disasters in the news have focused attention on mine safety. Peter Dreier in the 12 June 2006 Nation Magazine believes the...
... The truth may be more like, yes, but not very much. It is *very* hard to tell. Warren, range voting is a piece of the puzzle; it is an improved voting...
New York Times editorial, 30 May 2006, title: BLOCK THE VOTE, excerpts: In a country that spends so much time extolling the glories of democracy, it's amazing ...
... --in principle yes. In reality, I doubt this is going to happen and I have a small amount of evidence from our polling study ("small" since it is only one...
... It was misguided, indeed. In more ways than one. It was not, however, a diatribe, and the post was not a flame. And I have better things to do. Let me know...
... REVIEW - THE GRAND PLAN Well, let me review a bit. When CRV started about 1 year ago, I figured that we could double in membership every month, so in 12...
This seems to be a rare opportunity to give feedback to Yahoo groups. Suggest everyone ask them to add Range Voting (a.k.a. Score Voting) as a polling method. ...
... Ha! I forwarded an HTML email, but yahoo groups removed it. Try this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/local/newemail.html and click on "Share your thoughts"....
