Regarding the issue of potentially hacked voting machines, it appears the military is worried about the same sort of problems with their computer systems. I...
... Evidence that such a thing has happened? I don't know of any. But of course all parties on both sides of the Syrian radar incident would want to keep ...
Former NY Times columnist William Safire ("The farewell dossier" column 4 Feb 2004?) claimed than in June 1982, the CIA set off a giant explosion in a Siberian...
There may be truth to this story, but there are also internal inconsistencies with how computers and software are designed. ... Chips. The story that is then...
Heya. You say, with Range Voting "it never pays to submit a dishonest vote". But Range voting is, in fact, manipulable. There is the obvious strategy of...
Also (!) since Range voting is manipulable, as I said, this means that it is also susceptible to Arrow's theorem. Range voting, played rationally and therefore...
The definition of "honest vote" used here is one which contains no reversed preference; i.e. no ranking of B above A when the voter actually prefers A to B. A...
... that ... any ... preference. Poppycock. If you believe your first preference is unlikely to win, even if you bullet-vote for him, your optimal strategic...
Hey Jack. But aren't you then using a definition of honesty (or sincerity) which assumes rank-order voting? The criterion of honesty in Range voting should be...
What about my example? It's pretty clear that either voter does best by misrepresenting their cardinal values. I suppose whether you agree that that...
... "Manipulable?" What does that mean? This discussion has become highly distorted by the transfer of certain terms used, for decades, to analyze ranked...
... Hello? Arrow's theorem is narrow. Perhaps you should actually read a good explanation of it! ... That's actually not true, at all. If you are a Nader voter...
... --heh. Sorry. I was responding to JackRudd about computers, and the tangential relevance is, that people can hack computers, hence computerized voting...
... It may not be linear, that's about it. Essentially, if voters have some internal rating scale, they must somehow transform this into a vote, and, due to...
... --well, your post is very long. I will just say a few things. 1. I have trouble believing Safire's story because I have trouble believing that a...
... I just did a complete computer search through every one of the over 800 CRV web pages. Not one contains "it never pays to submit a dishonest vote". Sorry,...
From "Londonist" http://londonist.com/2008/04/majority_of_lon.php 30 april 2008 Majority Of Londoners Confused By Mayoral Voting System Londoners are all hot...
Well you missed it! It's on this page: http://rangevoting.org/GibbSat.html "In range voting elections with 3 candidates, it never pays to submit a dishonest...
... Who says? Yes, in the analysis of election method performance, an assumption is made that there are sincere internal utilities. Various methods are used to...
... The critic posits sincere values, but nothing is stated about how these values interrelate. Depending on *absolute* utilities -- are these absolute...
... --by "full context" you mean, the full sentence. Also, the full sentence says it is 3-candidate. You ALSO omitted that part in your original quote. If you...
... That's pretty much how I feel all the time! At least when contemplating voting for the highly restricted set of choices I see in many public elections! Of...
Oy vey! Well, if I said something about 2 candidates, then obviously it holds for 3 candidates as well: just add another irrelevant candidate above or below! ...
Voter 1 should strategically vote A=10 and C=0, as we keep telling you. *There is never any situation in Range Voting where voting your favourite anywhere...
... Interesting. Until I started looking into range voting, my preferred voting system was a version of cumulative voting (differing from the type of CV you...
... That's right. If you knew, you wouldn't say that. I both write a lot and I write a little. I write a lot to explore a topic in detail. There are those who...
