Didn't see this mail (see below) get through yet. Sorry if you will receive some of my mails twice or more often. Some additional maybe helpful comments (I...
... That would be irrational. B voters alone can not bury anyone under a candidate that has no support. C voters would be irrational to join their campaign...
Ok, my simplest short explanation that could explain the general tendency to favour "A>B and D>C" is simply that people hate losing money more than they love...
Assume a state that is shaped as below (rectangle with hole in centre) and with uniform population density to be split into 4. Something like (hope it displays...
One of the objections to splitline is that it violates the VRA. This mandates that certain minorities should be a majority in at least 1 district. What about...
I haven't followed this discussion in any detail, but it seems to me that the issue of how people arrive at their preferences in situations such as these is...
... Yes. Range reduces to Approval and Approval reduces to Plurality, in the presence of voting the extremes. And those are, in fact, legitimately "sincere...
For an n-shaped semi-state, I would count the cut @@@@|@@@@@ @@@@|@@@@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ @@.....@@ ...
... http://rangevoting.org/VRAtext.html and where is this "mandate"? I do not see it. In Johnson v. De Grandy US Supreme Ct [512 U.S. 997 (1994), argued 4 Oct....
Two of my mails didn't make it through the servers back to me so I'll resend them. Here's the first one. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ... My Darwinian...
... Yes, that's the point. The promise of "A" to get $1M changes the evaluation of "B". Juho ___________________________________________________________ Copy...
Thanks for the link. I found some quick help from Wikipedia => http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Framing_(economics). The example there can be said to follow the...
... Probably pure monetary values make sense to workers in a large bank (for which these sums are just small events), but ordinary people seemed to be...
... In other words, it may be assumed that "significant" vote dilution is not taking place if representation is roughly proportional. I assume that this means...
When it's a Republican president, by the end of the administration the federal deficit has increased. When it's a Democrat, by the end of the administration...
... i don't see what that tells us about total spending, since the deficit has to do with expenditure _and_ collection. i want the party that taxes the least,...
Best I can do with what I read below is call it incomplete. When government borrows money because it has a deficit - spending faster than taxing - interest on...
Yahoo groups seems to be having a serious issue with my posts. This is the third time I have replied. Anyway, the point is that VRA can be used as an objection...
... No I think it is a good idea. I was just checking. I have a vague memory of a suggestion to enclose States in concave polygons to make the whole process...
Zimbabwe opposition: Tsvangirai has won presidency * Mark Tran * guardian.co.uk, * Wednesday April 2 2008 The Zimbabwean opposition today directly challenged...
The position taken by the Center for Range Voting regarding Arrow's General Impossibility Theorem is, I believe, that it doesn't apply to utility based systems...
The Center for Range Voting itself recommends that each voter normalize their ratings. That is the strategy the public would gravitate towards naturally...
A person who came very close to getting the nomination that most likely would have led her to the presidential office, was trying to destroy the evidence of a...
... --I think Lawrence and ProgressNerd are both correct on this. Lawrence was making the point (which many other people have also made, including me) that...
