... There is no need, with a relatively sophisticated population of voters, to have so many choices. If you must have granularity 99, why not the following...
He illustrated how an old controversy between Borda & Condorcet is resolved by range voting: http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/SmittyExp.html wds...
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Oct 1, 2005 6:25 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the RangeVoting group: This question is part of the NamePoll trying to decide the better name for our...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the RangeVoting group: This question is part of the NamePoll trying to decide the better name for our...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the RangeVoting group: This question is part of the NamePoll trying to decide the better name for our...
Dear Mike Ossipoff, ... If you want to exclude all those people from the polls who have somewhen somewhere cast a preference for some other election method,...
A minor thought/suggestion: I think that "range voting" is quite possibly not be the best name for what you are proposing (although it is workable). Maybe some...
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Oct 2, 2005 3:25 am
... If you want to exclude all those people from the polls who... I reply: Markus, did I say that I wanted to exclude you? I wanted to count your vote because...
I agree with Ron. I think "score voting" is much more descriptive than "range voting". I bet a lot of people could guess what score voting is just from the ...
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Oct 2, 2005 4:07 am
Jan-- You wrote: 6. RV101(kludge) Use an approval ballot with the following choices: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100 Voters are requested to...
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Oct 2, 2005 4:33 am
Lomax says: There is no need, with a relatively sophisticated population of voters, to have so many choices. If you must have granularity 99... I reply: ...
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Oct 2, 2005 5:00 am
Before I add the new nominations, it's necessary to record the votes at the results-display, since that display gets deleted when new alternatives are added to...
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Oct 2, 2005 5:13 am
Before I add the newly-nominated alternatives to the ballot, which will delte the results-display, I'm going to wait till tomorrow at 0700 GMT October 3rd,...
... --rats. I must say, this is hitting me where it hurts. I am actually the guy who coined the name "range voting" and then Brams informed me that I was...
On 9/30/05, MIKE OSSIPOFF <nkklrp@...> wrote:to me ... Yes I think 0-10 or 0-100 is a little more "natural" to most people, and I actually prefer...
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Oct 2, 2005 5:39 am
I might want to give a crumb to the nearly-acceptable candidates. In RV5, if I give them anything, then I must give them 1/4 what I give to the best. Kucinich...
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Oct 2, 2005 5:50 am
RV2 registers preference strength, but in a different way from that of RVf (finer-graded RV). RV2 registers preference strength because you vote for something...
1. Jan Kok pointed out that, while our method for handling 0-9 range voting (including blanks which are not averaged in) on dumb plurality machines works fine,...
0-9 and 0-99 ADVANTAGES: fewer digit slots, which means fewer voter-errors, fewer illegible scores, fewer invalid ballots, less fraud, no opportunity to screw...
Different ranges like 0-9 and 0-99 can be made compatible by multiplying to rescale (by 11 in this case). But if the ranges started with 1 or anyhow a nonzero...
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Oct 3, 2005 4:09 am
I spoke of RV2's advantages, and I also said that the RV with finest gradation is better. That sounded like contradiction, because I didn't clearly say what I...
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Oct 3, 2005 4:27 am
Solution #1: I'd said that I'd add the newly nominated methods to the ballot by editing the poll, even though that would delete the results-display. Of course...
with range voting as implemented on yahoo, it is trivial to add new options to an RV election, you just add a new option (each one is a yahoo plurality poll). ...
Monitors Find Significant Fraud in Afghan Elections By CARLOTTA GALL New York Times October 3, 2005 KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 2 - Election officials and...
There are at least two factors that affect voter behavior: - Voter is ignorant of the differences between the candidates vs. Voter has good understanding of...
... I think this is a good idea for RV as well, at least for general elections, where the choice of winner is much more important than who gets the most...
On the crv main page http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv you now can click "create ballot" which will create a reasonably nice looking typeset range ballot for you...
... --I disagree. Think it is a bad idea. It add extra complexity, makes it harder to put on voting machines, gets little benefit, and in fact I think makes...
Sunnis Question Move to Ease Iraqi Charter Approval By REUTERS Published: October 3, 2005, New York Times ... Iraq's parliament, which set electoral rules...
... I don't think this analysis is accurate. ... There are two rules here. Both of them must be satisfied for the constitution to pass. The basic rule is the...
