This anti Elizabeth Warren ad by Karl Rove's superpac "Crossroads GPS" is called by them an "issue ad" not a political ad aiming to help defeat Democrat Warren...
Keith Judd, who is serving a 17.5-year prison sentence for extortion at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, took 41 percent of the vote...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/15/carlos-texas-innocent-man-death based on http://www3.law.columbia.edu/hrlr/ltc/ describes how Texas executed Carlos...
Whose Welfare? Published: June 3, 2012 289 Every week the campaign dollars pile up, by the tens of millions, by the hundreds of millions, to a level never...
sigh, I know. Some days I think we should just get on with it and amend the Constitution to one dollar, one vote. At least we'd be spared the hypocrisy and...
Anyone here feeling poetic enough to make a current American version of Robert Burns's classic condemnation of the Scottish Parliament's sellout of 1707?...
While the internet is a fabulous resource, it does have some shortcomings, due, in part, to poor design of many websites. Immature or malicious users are also...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/02/drug-use-map-world gives the claims from a UN study of use of several types of illegal drugs in...
it was revealed today, was probably killed by radiation poisoning, having been secretly poisoned by the very radioactive element Polonium, traces of which have...
War with Iran, starting some time in the next few months, probably not long before our upcoming presidential election, is a real possibility. The primary cause...
War with Iran, starting some time in the next few months, probably not long before our upcoming presidential election, is a real possibility. The primary cause...
The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic By RICHARD A. MULLER Berkeley, Calif. [This appeared as NY Times op-ed, Monday 30 July 2012. Interestingly, Muller's...
If the only effect of an election is to determine the winner, then, if there are only two contenders on the ballot, voting for the better of the pair, even if...
Global groundwater use outpaces supply Measure reveals unsustainable use of world's aquifers By Meghan Rosen / Science News / Web edition : Wednesday, 8 August...
This is just to notify you that the long "Best President Ever" poll on the rangevoting.org site has a broken results page - there are several huge negative...
I found your site very interesting and making a lot of sense. I especially like the mathematical vigor you apply to the voting system question, rather than...
You seem to be asking, basically, about a situation where the social utility is either 0 or 1 (country self-destructs or not). You want to know which voting...
Asset Voting blows the whole issue out of the water. I've assumed that Asset would be most functional if the ballot has no names on it at all. A booklet is...
... --100,000 candidates "negotiating" to transfer their vote "assets" to one another, is not necessarily realistic. E.g, even if we forced the least-assetted...
... Warren is right. Asset does amazingly well at dissolving many issues which confound other voting systems, but it doesn't fix the chicken dilemma (at least,...
Any voting system that succumbs to the clone weakness can be manipulated safely and secretly. If our country was under serious attack, it is certain they...
I'm not saying asset is a bad voting system. It might be pretty good in the situations it seems suited for, e.g. electing 2-10 winners from 2-100 candidates. ...
... Note that in any large election, there might actually be very many "candidates" if write-ins are allowed. Normally, those votes are not amalgamated...
... This assumes that 100,000 candidates stand in line, each one of them reflecting for an hour while the others twiddle their thumbs. This is an unfortunate...
... I'm simply asserting that there is practically no "chicken" dilemma in Asset. That may be an exaggeration. That is, we might imagine two candidates left,...
Abd says that a fully-realized (in)direct democracy system using Asset has no chicken dilemma. Though his arguments for that are convincing that this would not...
"The U.S. administration's war on whistleblowers must end. Thomas Drake, William Binney and John Kiriakou and the other heroic whistleblowers must--they...
... --you had said "asset voting" You did not say "some particular modification of asset voting which I still have not described the rules for." ... --so if I...
