A blog by Sullivan says: Bush's ratings remain mired in disappointment. (35% approval for Bush; 66% said the country is on the wrong track, vs. 28% right...
* CRV "mission statement" now explicitly says CRV is about all voting systems, not just range voting; RV is preferred but other systems may be recommended...
CT sen Jospeh Lieberman announced today if he loses the Democratic primary he will run for re-election as an independent. Good opportunity for you all to write...
Looks plausible that the Mexican presidency was just won by the wrong man thanks to yet another "spoiler pathology" under plurality voting. (Results not yet...
"According to our statistics, we have won the presidency," Obrador roared Sunday night. "The triumph is irreversible." Just over half an hour later, Calderon...
http://www.rangevoting.org/FunnyElections.html Anybody have any additional suggestions to add to this list?...
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Thank you for your e-mail. It is very important to me to know the issues that are of concern to you. A growing number of my constituents are now choosing to...
I really don't know if this this is a good idea or not. On the one hand, Warren has said that some politicians and organizations won't talk or listen to us...
If third parties in the USA are ever to get anyplace, not only does the voting system need ot change, but also a lot of ridiculous ballot access laws need to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong-way_elections Apparently another interesting example of an election in which IRV and pluraliuty with delayed runoff would ...
I think Jan is right about a lot of the problems we will get if we get money. (And it is not clear we can get mucho money either.) But I also do not see an...
... win, and voters (V) may support two (or more) of them by casting equal (approval) votes, candidates (C1 and C2) seeking support from the same group (G) of...
OK, the hopefully-final version of my "Left-middle-right 3-candidate scenario" paper, which attempts an exhaustive computer simulation of essentially all such...
Al redactor: Asumalo que la eleccion era honesta. Entonces la razon unica Calderon "ganado" (por 0.58%) era el sistema de votacion de "la pluralidad" danado. ...
What about using range voting on each ballot, but interpreting the vote ordinally on that basis, then only using range voting if there is a circular ambiguity,...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong-way_elections the wikipedists want to delete this article (mostly written by me). If you are a wikipedia member (or perhaps...
14 July 2006 New York Times Editorial Chained to the Ballot The former House majority leader Tom DeLay, master practitioner of tooth-and-claw politics, finds...
WDS: I proved Schentrup's previous Condorcet-range hybrid method unfortunately exhibits "favorite betrayal" and there are "no show paradoxes" where honest...
Usual procedure - county officials in charge of decisions about buying voting machines are ignorant and in the manufacturer's pockets. And note that just this...
I did a million random 3-candidate elections. Each voter regarded each candidate as having a utility value which was a standard normal random deviate. (All...
... Yes, it's probably true that voters regard most candidates as random deviates :-) ... What is not clear to me is whether the candidates and the voters have...
... --in this (maximally simple) computer experiment, it was the latter. ... --actually I can prove in the infinite#voters limit, that CWs fail to happen in...
Did you know that bees vote? Bees have pretty small brains but are quite intelligent in some ways. They can communicate with each other by "dancing" and...
Seeley's web site is http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/department/Faculty/seeley/seeley.html Wrote book The Wisdom of the Hive (Harvard University Press,...
New simulation program. Same unrealistically-random (but simple) honest-voting random-normal-deviates election model. (Incidentally, the normal random deviates...
