Been looking at the access logs and I think a lot of the conventional wisdom we hear web marketing gurus spouting all the time, is baloney. I.e.: 1. visitors...
... Here's one: "Let's go back 150 years ago. At that time, Abraham Lincoln was the member of a third-party movement that was called the Republican Party. ...
... Plurality with delayed runoff is another single-winner method that deserves mention. It's important because it's widely used in public elections (e.g....
... I agree, the quote box is worthless, or less. The way I interpret the attention span idea is, a visitor is willing to spend a few seconds scanning the page...
... Depends on the purpose. Within the body of text, yes. However, all caps is superior *when it is no more than one line*; i.e., it is *very* easily readable....
Reply to JK: I added your JVentura quote to quotebox's list. ... bad start. Immdiately Joe Public thinks you are part of Ventura, wants nothing to do with...
so you can compare (I just altered the stuff near the beginnign of top ten section) http://rangevoting.org/RVbold.html http://rangevoting.org/RVitalics.html ...
... --not buying it. I can tell from the logs the vast majority of ultra-short-time visitors got there from a google search. E.g. they want to know Lincoln's...
... Ok, well, I'm waiting for suggestions from you and others on what the theme and headline should be. Are you trying to tune the web site to Howard Dean?? -...
... partly. The top goal ought to be to try to get Iowa which means to tune it to high Dems & Republicans (Dean being the top Dem). However, cannot even reach...
... Well, no... In my proposal for a new public-friendly home page, there is still a search box, the left-hand menu, and a new right-hand list of links which...
To Ron Rivest I made add-on web pages 1. http://rangevoting.org/PlurRivest.html 2. http://rangevoting.org/RouseCond.html 1 demonstrates how the 3ballot...
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Warren Smith
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Oct 4, 2006 12:28 am
Suddenly the obvious dawns on me - there is a far simpler stencil scheme that the one I had in mind before. NEW SIMPLER & BETTER STENCIL SCHEME: It is this: ...
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Warren Smith
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Oct 4, 2006 12:59 am
With the Rivest 3-ballot scheme (as fixed by Warren D. Smith to avoid the attacks and get even simpler!) DRE voting machines (direct recording electronic...
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Warren Smith
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Oct 4, 2006 2:19 am
Did you see (my recent post on RV) I fixed Rivest's problem!? Very simple! Total fix, even for plurality voting. Rivest's original plan = busted for plurality...
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Warren Smith
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Oct 4, 2006 4:15 am
... --it is just a silly thing of the past to bundle multiple races. Debundle them. Once that done, then your old scheme was still in deep doo-doo from the...
... computers) ... Okay, I don't care HOW simple the math is here, most people, like the morons I wait tables on here in southeast Texas, are NOT going to jump...
Hello, I need your help to add relevant information to the following page: http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/Cardinal%20Voting especially by adding information...
... order to ... I'll just spell it out here. This has got to be the simplest thing imaginable. You just collect a value from 0-99 (or a specification of a ...
Hi Augustin, How much "inertia" does the "Cardinal Voting" name have? Could I get you to call it "Range Voting" instead? For example, rename the wiki page to...
Why couldn't you give each voter a copy of all three of his ballots, plus the ballots of, say, 10,000 other voters? Or say you give him just his three ballots,...
... Indeed. "Cardinal" means numerically ordered, does it not? That is not only less descriptive than "range" voting, but perhaps outright incorrect....
I revised my writeup of it and named it the "boffo" plan, http://rangevoting.org/Rivest3B.html I should make it clear that I claim this is a total solve of the...
... --because then voter could sell his vote. Vote buyer: show my your 3 copies, giving me total info about your vote. Vote seller: here you are, as you can...
Yet another vote-split unclear winner scenario with plurality voting(?): Zambia's opposition Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata reiterated Wednesday his...
Warren wrote: ... There are a zillion ways to add numbers _mechanically_, display the result, and constrain the result to a desired range. The addends can each...
A mysterious poster to our group, Gned the Gnome (who _is_ that masked man?) has proposed a form of Cumulative Voting in which voters may distribute some fixed...
"DRE"voting machines (direct recording electronic computers)are a bad idea since they might remember things (like which of the ballots was copied)and thus...
... What do we do now to assure that a document is genuine? Use fancy paper, emboss with a seal, signatures, file a copy with someone (the Leage of Women...
