... Are the North Korean counterfeiters printing out of date dollar bills? I think it is only the US that doesn't do bill expiry. In other countries, old...
Stefan A. Brands: Rethinking public-key infrastructure and digital certificates, MIT Press 2000 (based on his PhD thesis) This is a fascinating book. (All or...
... --well, you just put expire dates on bills and change the bill design all the time. The N Koreans hopefully take some time to develop their counterfeit...
... a bunch of idiots in ... and absolutely refuse ... By the way, we already have a gas-guzzler tax on the books, but unfortunately it exempts trucks (which...
I see something different in that election. There were two extreme candidates who coud expect the same votes in IRV or Condorcet as they got in Plurality. Then...
... IRV or ... of the ... votes as in ... choices ... could have ... Let us look at the specifics of the political situation with that election. Chirac and...
Warren, Because of compulsory strict ranking (compounded by compulsory voting) and polls and past experience telling voters (or those advising them via the ...
Many people on very different parts of the political spectrum agree that the war on drugs is a bad idea. The reasons for opposition include human cost,...
... will be bad ... "unknown fanatic ... is the ... Funnily enough, I was just thinking about this problem the other day and I came up with a normalizing (is...
... Just remembered that a hyperbolic tangent would also work, and would require just one parameter like the exponential. Also, I guess one advantage of the...
... --this article seemed to agree with me! Car co's predicing world will run out of Lithium unable to meet their demands! And that is apparently assuming...
... indexes. ... Huh? Why would you want to behave as if Smith got 320 votes when he only got 10?? I'm assuming that by "95% confidence point" you mean what...
... I'm skeptical. Remember, "Approval" is misnamed. I'm starting to call it Open Voting. It's just FPTP, but multiple voting is allowed. FPTP isn't "Vote for...
... That's an example of the difficulty of allowing those elected by a process to control the process! This is simply institutionalizing incumbency. If you win...
... Ralph Suter wrote a post recently to the Election Methods list where he went over the history. Quite clear. FairVote essentially hijacked the reform...
... Doesn't this argument depend on what kind of IRV is used? FairVote calls batch-elimination STV, all are eliminated except the top tow, "IRV," and claims...
... Must be true, then. That article is short on references to sources verifying what it says, speaking as an official Wikipedia editor. Heh, heh. It's ...
... --if ferrari only made that 1 car, and somebody was touting it as the wave of the future in mass transit, then yeah. ... --maybe. I wish them luck. But...
... well, congress made rules with a loophole for SUVs. The main reason we even HAVE SUVs is this loophole. The loophole created SUVs. Congress exactly...
... generates ... very ... (former ... election ... call ... FPTP ... you ... People ... The point is that only one of those two parties is a major party. UKIP...
... Restating the above for NY more completely, election for governor serves an extra purpose: As for any election: Party leadership can designate candidates. ...
... Yes, Approval has problems with clones. ... Yes, Range tends to become Approval like in competitive environments. ... - Voters have difficulties in finding...
Here are some papers by Saari about rank-order voting methods, especially "weighted positional" methods. They are highly admirable. But at the same time, I...
More on this DG Saari: A dictionary for voting paradoxes, Journal of Economic Theory 48,2 (August 1989) 443-475 He shows in the 3-canddt case that every...
... --This part of Saari's paper is wrong: IRV cannot eliminate the plurality winner in the first IRV round (and plurality is a weighted positional voting...
Hallo, here is a speech (11 Oct 2008) by Donald G. Saari on the Borda method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fhcl2CAk1s At 00:46:46, Saari claims: "The Borda...
