Warren Smith did some apportionment simulations for the United States House of Representatives to give an estimate of how frequent quota violations would be,...
I received an interesting email in response to my blogpost on the Minneapolis RCV Report. The e-mailer had attempted to contact the report's author, presenting...
Dale Sheldon-Hess pointed out this page http://www.fairvotemn.org/RCVbetter (quoted in full, downloaded 3 Aug 2010): Why RCV is Better Ranked Choice Voting: 1...
... --actually, wait a sec, I thought they meant cost of counting the votes. Cost of campaigning is another question. Really? Any evidence? I'm guessing, but...
(Rob Richie's Letter follows. As usual for FairVote it advocates getting rid of Top-2-runoff in favor of Instant Runoff.) To the Editor: Re "Civics Fans Can't...
"I just don't get it. If IRV is so great, why cannot its proponents use valid arguments?" Because once you make lies the foundation of your argument, when...
... --I did not send an email to the NY Times because every time I ever did, nothing ever happened. You can if you want... But I did send an email to the...
... --I added it to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/links/ (as you could also have done)...
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Raph Frank
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Aug 4, 2010 10:16 pm
... You potentially get the wrong number of seats. However, with 4 parts, that is probably not an issue. Since the errors must add up to zero, and the max...
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Raph Frank
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Aug 4, 2010 10:17 pm
Forgot to add 50.49 -> 50 50.49 -> 50 49.51 -> 50 49.51 -> 50 However, you could have 50.49 -> 50 50.49 -> 50 49.49 -> 49 49.51 -> 50 So, one loss....
... Never more than an error of one for the total. If the fractions add to 3.0, either 3 or 4 of the fractions must be greater than 0.5. If there are 4, then...
... Which is the same as Sainte-Lague ... I adjusted the example to avoid a tie, and so that they totaled to 200. In this case Sainte-Lague apportions a 51st...
Warren, Rob Richie mentions the point that Congressional nomination races often go to a runoff, and seems to think it is wrong of you to dismiss those as being...
... --it is a subjective matter of opinion where to draw the dividing line "major" vs "not." All I can tell you is, there always seems to be a way to draw the...
... --Actually an example of this was the Ron Dudum vs Ed Jew district supervisor race in San Fran, won by Jew under IRV. (It was not a primary, but it makes...
... --actually, this is a valid attack on IRV, but not really on approval voting. Because some of the Asian voters would have approved Dudum also, but the...
India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor? [NY Times, front page, 8 Aug 2010.] Essentially, if there were not enough food for the population, making laws...
... Who _are_ the Texas Railroad Commissioners. They are elected to 6 year terms, with one elected every two years. Ritchie was probably referring to the...
http://nzbcsd.org.nz/_attachments/Microsoft%5FWord%5F%2D%5FVoters%5Ffavouring%5Fchange%5Fto%5FMMP%5Fsystem%5FAugust%5F2010%2Epdf says a full report will be...
... --there was an op-ed by Steven Hill mentioning a runoff (which he viewed as a waste of money and hence wanted IRV) for texas railroad commissioner. I no...
... Sure, but that doesn't seem to address my issue. If a Congressional primary has more voters than some non-Congressional election that you say is "major",...
