... using ... --you have misunderstood my notation. 100% of the voters (in this district) give B a score of 40. 40% of the voters give A a score of 0....
... Actually, I did understand that. I used the term "B voters" to indicate those that rated B highest. Since every voter rated B the same, there were only two...
FROM MR NELSON JABU JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA MOBILE: + 27 73 755 82 62. GOODDAY, IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WRITE THIS LETTER TO YOU,KNOWING TOO WELL THAT YOU ARE ...
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I've operated quite a few lists and, if the list settings allow it, the parasites will eventually find it and start using the list to propagate. I suspect that...
NY Times, 25 Jan 2006, page A20: Republicans congressional negotiators tweaked a "$26 billion budget cutting" bill to provide the health insurance industry...
http://www.dailysonic.com/gerrymander/index.php gives a measure of how gerrymandered different districts are. (we mathematicians call this the "isoperimetric...
Isaac Dolom (creator of Gerry index software) writes: "I used data from the Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/index.html). They have files that...
A Turning Point for New York Courts New York Times Op-Ed page, February 4, 2006 The myth that New Yorkers choose their top trial judges by democratic election...
PAUL HACKETT: Iraq war vet Paul Hackett tried to run for Ohio Senator in a bid to unseat GOP senator Mike DeWine. Hackett had previously narrowly lost a...
The reason the line-item veto was ruled unconstitutional is the same reason that "earmarks" and "pork" have so dominated the workings of congress: if the...
Today's (Monday 6 Mar 2006) NY Times page B1, Joyce Purnick article describes how the disfunctional NY State government managed to massively fail to meet ...
... Bad idea, actually. Referenda are more easily manipulated by special interests than are legislators. Basically, that kind of direct democracy simply does...
I'm posting this to the EM list since I think this is of broader interest than just RV. ... I hadn't thought or heard of that before, but I think you are right...
... I'm also not sure it is a good idea, but an argument for it would be that it would distribute a certain amount of money roughly by population. Without...
http://math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/budvot.pdf (and .ps) analyses my "voting with money" budget allocation process and related issues in greater detail....
... It is perhaps both. ... The argument, if I've got it correctly, is that because the trades will be visible, the public will use the information to stop it....
... --yes, votes will be publicly visible, which indeed will improve this. However the MAIN reason is that the incentives on politicians will differ: with...
... It seems you have overlooked an aspect of logrolling: it is mutual. You vote for my pork, I'll vote for yours. What the proposed system does is an...
... --I think you are not fully grasping my main point about incentives, which is probably my fault for not explaining it clearly enough. Let me try again....
The Corpus Christi Progressive Populous Caucus proposed some resolutions that will hopefully make it to the Texas Democratic Party platform. Included in that...
... The part about RV is: "WHEREAS, In range voting, voters give numeric ratings to each option, and the option with the highest total score wins. Each voter...
Yes, I see that now but it's a start. I'll be at the county convention and I'll see what I can do. RV is new to me but I appreciate how it goes further than...
By the way, the Electoral College itself is not particularly undemocratic, the small-state advantage being relatively small in overall impact. The problem is...
Dear Warren, in your website and in your mails, you mention the "maxtree method". Is this a new method? Which properties does it possess? Please send me a copy...
... I sent some info to Markus directly but here let me briefly describe the idea. Maxtree voting is a rank-order voting system related to Jobst Heitzig's ...
Markus Schulze responded about maxtree method and pointed out that its variant in which you maximize, not the sum of the tree-arc-values, but rather the...
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