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...
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,...
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...
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...
WDS: I proved Schentrup's previous Condorcet-range hybrid method unfortunately exhibits "favorite betrayal" and there are "no show paradoxes" where honest...
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...
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,...
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. ...
OK, the hopefully-final version of my "Left-middle-right 3-candidate scenario" paper, which attempts an exhaustive computer simulation of essentially all such...
... 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...
Been researching this. Long story short: I still haven't figured out all the answers to certain important legal questions - but preliminary impression is it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong-way_elections Apparently another interesting example of an election in which IRV and pluraliuty with delayed runoff would ...
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...
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...
"According to our statistics, we have won the presidency," Obrador roared Sunday night. "The triumph is irreversible." Just over half an hour later, Calderon...
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...
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...
* 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...
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...
A couple weeks ago Forest Simmons suggested the candidate withdrawal option as a way of improving most election methods. I just realized that the candidate...
RL Suter pointed out to me the following quote from an entry on electoral systems he authored for the Encyclopedia of Democracy (1995), Arend Lijphart wrote: ...
The Non-profit lobbying guide, 2nd edition, by Bob Smucker (158 pages), is available at http://www.RangeVoting.org/SmuckerNPLG.pdf it looks like a useful...
UNITY08'S "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" Friday, June 30, 2006 Unity08 just held its second "conference call for bloggers" (here's my take on the first one...
Somebody, such as a lawyer, needs to figure out whether it is permissible for CRV to be a "non profit" despite its intention to lobby th Dem and Repub parties...
Problem 17 on the CRV puzzles page http://www.rangevoting.org/PuzzlePage.html now poses the question: what is the probability that a "random" 3-candidate...
