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1412 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 2, 2006
6:06 am
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...
1413 Jan Kok
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Oct 2, 2006
6:43 am
... 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. ...
1414 Jan Kok
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Oct 2, 2006
8:02 am
... 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....
1415 Jan Kok
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Oct 2, 2006
1:03 pm
... 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...
1416 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
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Oct 2, 2006
1:43 pm
... 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....
1417 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 3, 2006
1:11 am
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...
1418 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 3, 2006
1:27 am
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 ...
1419 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 3, 2006
1:27 am
... --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...
1420 Jan Kok
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Oct 3, 2006
2:52 am
... 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?? -...
1421 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 3, 2006
5:39 am
... 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...
1422 Jan Kok
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Oct 3, 2006
10:02 am
... 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...
1423 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 3, 2006
5:43 pm
now replaced with small-caps version....
1424 Warren Smith
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Oct 3, 2006
9:58 pm
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...
1425 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: ...
1426 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...
1427 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...
1428 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...
1429 brokenladdercalendar
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Oct 4, 2006
7:11 am
... 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...
1430 Augustin
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Oct 4, 2006
9:41 am
Hello, I need your help to add relevant information to the following page: http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/Cardinal%20Voting especially by adding information...
1431 brokenladdercalendar
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Oct 4, 2006
10:55 am
... 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 ...
1432 Jan Kok
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Oct 4, 2006
4:47 pm
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...
1433 brokenladdercalendar
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Oct 5, 2006
1:14 am
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,...
1434 brokenladdercalendar
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Oct 5, 2006
1:19 am
... Indeed. "Cardinal" means numerically ordered, does it not? That is not only less descriptive than "range" voting, but perhaps outright incorrect....
1435 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 5, 2006
6:27 pm
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...
1436 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 5, 2006
6:35 pm
... --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...
1437 warren_d_smith31
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Oct 5, 2006
6:59 pm
Yet another vote-split unclear winner scenario with plurality voting(?): Zambia's opposition Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata reiterated Wednesday his...
1438 Jan Kok
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Oct 5, 2006
9:36 pm
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...
1439 Jan Kok
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Oct 6, 2006
12:07 am
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...
1440 brokenladdercalendar
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Oct 6, 2006
12:10 am
"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...
1441 Jan Kok
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Oct 6, 2006
12:28 am
... 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...
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