... CB: I suggest that the best way to do that is by there not *being* any "details". It just seems to me that you want to say to the public "We have this...
On 10/31/05, in a message titled "lpusmisc -- back from the grave" ... I question the wisdom of disallowing discussion of voting methods, and strongly disagree...
AN EXAMPLE OF DISHONEST-ORDERING IN STRATEGIC RANGE-VOTING WITHOUT CORRELATIONS; 4-CANDIDATES ... Rob LeGrand keeps saying I'm not convincing him with this...
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Boris Alexeev
boris.alexeev@...
Nov 4, 2005 6:24 am
As everyone on the list probably saw, WDS contacted me (and posted to the list) to inform me of the incorrectness of my Wikipedia example demonstrating that...
... --I think scenarios of your type CAN have approval voting being non-optimal; the question is what is "your type." I have given some examples in previous...
if you browse to http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/SoundFiles.html and follow directions, you should be able to listen to my 1 hour radio interview. I think...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 5, 2005 6:45 am
Aside from RV's obvious advantage in familiarity, which is likely to be more important than Approval's advantage of greater simplicity, there are situations in...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 5, 2005 6:55 am
Just a few more comments: I've said that, for public elections, I prefer the best FBC-complying rank methods to Approval. But that's based on practical...
I added Ossipoff's arguments about voter ignorance & indecisiveness to the range Vs. approval arguments at http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/rangeVapp.html I...
The Takoma Voice (Maryland) published the editorial about range voting and IRV... editorial: http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/takomaedit.txt graphical sidebar...
Congratulations, Warren. You wrote a very good letter and got it published in CVD's own city! Warren's letter (edited slightly but not too badly by the...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 6, 2005 5:30 am
One gets the feeling that no one devised or invented Approval. Someone merely discovered the obvious. That isn't true of any other method. In that way,...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 6, 2005 6:54 am
As Warren said, the experimental polling showed a better nursery effect for RV than for Approval. I acknowledge that RV will give better results in our public...
... Nader, then that person still might like Nader enough to give him some points, even if he doesn't like Nader enough to give him a vote in Approval. I...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 7, 2005 4:52 am
Warren-- ... Nader, then that person still might like Nader enough to give him some points, even if he doesn't like Nader enough to give him a vote in...
http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/SPRates.html concludes (without statistical confidence) that range voting has half the spoilage rates as pluralty voting and...
Jill Stewart: Terminator vs Gerrymander, pA23, Nov 7 2005 NY Times, supports prop 77 claiming it has to be better than the system California has now. She notes...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 8, 2005 6:35 am
I'll refer to the "1-person-1-vote" objection to Approval as "1p1v". 1p1v has been demolished on EM in so many ways that I don't claim that this message will...
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MIKE OSSIPOFF
nkklrp@...
Nov 8, 2005 6:36 am
This is my reply to a reply, on EM, to my posting about Approval vs RV and rank methods: Dave-- You wrote: Your subject implies a promise to compare among...
Let me re-emphasize the data analysis in http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/SPRates.html It shows that range voting has AT LEAST 3 TIMES SMALLER error rates...
Is anybody interested in or able to produce a TELEVISION PROGRAM about voting methods? It occurs to me that such a program could be, e.g. shown on "public...
I have gathered somewhere around 5000 email addresses of likely-target people associated with third parties, political science, etc etc. Here are some of the...
... --wds: it is amazing how members of third parties have this incredible blindness to reality and think their party will live forever. I met some SOCIALISTS...
I have figured out a way to do fairly high quality video for instructional purposes like CRV's on the cheap, and to make it viewable internet-wide even with a...
A few more comments on the "narrated lecture HTML" idea of the last post. The proposed scheme could be done in parallel by N authors in 1/N the production time...
http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/slideshow1/Intro.html gives a brief slide show so you can see that this stuff really can work! (It does not actually contain...
... [goes on to argue that the LP is dieing] I made my comment in the middle of my critique of a recruiting letter of Warren's. The real point I was trying to...
well, I guess my definition of a "dead" third party is one which will not ever get reasonably large vote counts again and will not be able to get on a...
