... twice ... the ... the way. ... numbers ... voter "twice ... $10,000 ... Attaching numbers to utilities or preferences is a tricky business. If you just do...
... Indeed. And that was part of my point. ... This is a little frustrating. Here is what Gronn ... I made the same point, though even more directly. To pursue...
... person can decide if he prefers A to B. I don't think it's meaningful for a person to say "A brings me so much utility or so many happiness units." You are...
Even if there are just 2 candidates, range voting can do a better job, by taking into account how strongly voters feel about them. If candidate A is marginally...
I agree with Steve completely. Candidate B might espouse a position that is of great interest to 49% of the voters, and of no interest at all, for or against,...
How did PR arise in the countries in which it arose? In the cases I can think of offhand, it arose because the country started up that way - i.e. at initial...
What's to stop a president, from, e.g. having all his political opponents wiretapped, arrested, and/or killed? (Those are crimes? Then the president just...
... Without reading the Federal Regulation cited, I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the patent application process allows trade secrets to be kept as...
... There is a problem, which is the problem of equating voter utilities. How are Range ratings determined? What algorithm does the voter use to determine the...
... What is to stop a President from doing that is impeachment, that is the constitutional remedy. But what if the President acted to prevent Congress from...
... started up that way - ... I think in some countries the previous non-PR system of government collapsed. I think it requires that there isn't one dominant...
... New Zealand, which switched from FPP in single-member districts to German-style "Mixed Member Proportional" (MMP) seems to more or less fill the bill. ...
... The fact that Bush didn't give Libby a full pardon means nothing because he'll do that as he leaves office. Meanwhile, Libby will never spend an hour in...
... Perhaps, maybe even probably. But I wouldn't say that it means nothing. It means that Bush tried to strike some kind of compromise, though it seems that he...
... length, ... voter to voter. This is where we differ. I would make the max and min points of each voter's rubber bands correspond to each voter's most...
... If that happens, then the checks and balances have already collapsed. The constitution cannot be expected to handle issues that far outside its scope....
... --I think this answer was simplistic. How do presidents take over countries, end democracy, and convert themselves into dictators? (This is one of the...
Open letter to Steve Chessin and CfER.org I got back from my trip and now have time to try to convince you and CfER.org hopefully to see our main points our...
Preferential voting system causes problems in PNG Radio New Zealand International Posted at 21:16 on 03 July, 2007 UTC While wet weather has already led to an...
... prevent ... Fair enough. However, my main point is the whole 'the constitution cannot enforce itself' problem. If enough powerful elements in a country...
I found this to be entertaining, informative, and, I suspect, effective at showing people the nature gerrymandering. http://www.redistrictinggame.org/ You...
These two arguments are very poor, and make you seem a bit nutty, in my opinion. # Honeybees and at least one ant species are known to use range voting to make...
... And as we have explained to you at great length, this isn't possible - it doesn't work. Say that 51% of voters think X and Y are equally good, except that...
... Had ago at the reform version. The commission being made up of party reps while the person setting the map being blind to demographics, means that it is...
... We don't differ, at least not in this. Rather, Mr. Lawrence's concept is incomplete. If reality is A + B, and one person states that, and another says,...
... I think it might be interesting information how the Chinese government managed to evict the students from Tienanmen Square. The residents of Beijing, the...
Note that it's settled law that a citizen of a state is free to run for Congress in any district in that state regardless of his/her place of residence....
