On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:25 AM, brokenladdercalendar ... Ahh, ok, I should have checked the dates. However, it is looking that electionID 1 occurs at more...
... Yes, 5 seats may be enough for a working PR system. Finland plans to make a reform since the number of seats in the smallest districts (excluding Åland...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 2, 2009 10:35 am
... It would still be party list based, i.e. each voter votes for 1 candidate/party, not separate national and district votes? There doesn't seem to be an easy...
core support 35% A > C > B > D 17% B > others 32% C > B > others 16% D > B > others In this 4-candidate election, Instant Runoff Voting selects candidate B as...
also... 1) candidate A is a spoiler. 2) the first row of voters have an incentive to betray candidate A, instead of vote sincerely. but that was obvious of...
... doh! change around b and d in the first row: 35% A > C > D > B 17% B > others 32% C > B > others 16% D > B > others now d is also preferred by a majority...
okay, i think i finally figured out how to make this example as illustrative as possible, tweaking it just a bit: core support 35% A > C > D > B 17% B > C > D...
... Yes, each vote is a vote to one of the candidates of one of the districts. ... The proposal is available but unfortunately so far only in Finnish + a...
1) Voters score the candidates as with score voting. 2) W = the (maximum) number of winners. 3) We elect the W candidates which produce the highest sum of each...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 3, 2009 12:22 am
... How inconsiderate, just publishing in their own language :). ... Whatever the algorithm, some kind of backtracking does seem necessary. This is a pity, as...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 3, 2009 12:47 am
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:34 PM, brokenladdercalendar ... I assume that you mean that if this condition fails, this winning set is deemed invalid and pick the...
... I have no idea what you are talking about. What "condition"? I am simply saying that if e.g. there were two seats, and X is everyone's favorite, then X is...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 3, 2009 10:46 am
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:22 AM, brokenladdercalendar ... I didn't realise about that you meant there would be a non-equal assembly. I doubt in a real election...
... so what? that doesn't guarantee them a seat. and if they do get a seat, they get to represent...themselves. hah! a lot of good that will do. it will give...
... <snip> I assume the plan is to guarantee national proportionality based on 1 person/1 vote. If it is raining in a district, the voters in that district...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 3, 2009 8:38 pm
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM, brokenladdercalendar ... Well, it means that the rule is pointless, you could just leave it out and the method is simplified. ...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 3, 2009 8:43 pm
... Would you support assigning seats between the districts based on the number of people who vote? A district with a larger turnout would get more seats than...
A decade from now, people may look back with amazement at how the US renewed, and enlarged its Afghan incursion, with virtually no public discussion or...
... who _cares_ if some guy wants to show up each day and cast one vote? most likely he won't want to do that. the elimination is there as a formality, so that...
i'd like to befriend any of you who have facebook accounts. you can look me up under my name, clay shentrup....
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 4, 2009 10:05 am
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:15 AM, brokenladdercalendar ... Yes. People want boundaries that follow rivers/mountain ranges/county boundaries etc. They also would...
A decade from now, people may look back with amazement at how the US renewed, and enlarged its Afghan incursion, with virtually no public discussion or...
... My Congressional district starts out in the Bronx, spills into Westchester County, and then crosses the Hudson River into Rockland County.And it is by no...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 4, 2009 5:13 pm
... People care. In any case, politicians want to maintain control of the districting process and thus they care alot about any excuse they can use to argue ...
... Alternatives to this could be e.g. 1) to give up exact regional PR and allocate the seats to regions separately within each party or 2) Michel Balinski's ...
... If natural boundaries are the target then the natural approach could be to first do the background work and split the country in small enough natural areas...
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Raph Frank
raphfrk@...
Feb 5, 2009 12:57 am
... Right, in the US census, everything is based on census blocks. The problem is that the more dials there are the easier it is to manipulate. I think a...
... Here's one simple approach. The basic algorithm could be such that it works by always splitting the remaining areas in two same size ore near same size (n...
-http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123388752673155403.html And the Oscar Goes to...Not Its Voting System Selection of Academy Award Nominees and Winners is...
