Dear Mike, ... Your comments are irrelevant because of two reasons: First: The question how the votes are casted and the question how the votes are counted can...
Markus Schulze
schulze@...
May 3, 1998 7:11 pm
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D comment- The below shows that paper ballots and simple X type plurality elections are totally obsolete but, of course, linger on due to corrupt and ignorant...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 5, 1998 7:41 pm
111
... In a rated vote (where a distinct "opinion" is expressed for every possibility), it is possible to conduct the decision process with a method where each...
Saari
Saari@...
May 5, 1998 10:43 pm
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Mr. Saari wrote: In a rated vote (where a distinct "opinion" is expressed for every possibility), it is possible to conduct the decision process with a method ...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 6, 1998 6:50 am
115
... Any set of "rated" ballots can be converted to ranked ballots (presuming ties are allowed on the ranked ballots). Furthermore, if the desire is to have a...
Rob Lanphier
robla@...
May 6, 1998 7:18 am
117
... ...unless, of course, one may write in "do nothing". Heck, if it makes sense in the context of the particular election, I'd imagine that would be a listed...
Rob Lanphier
robla@...
May 6, 1998 7:26 am
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... I agree, and it is also clear that ranked ballots cannot be converted back to rated ballots. This is strong evidence that rated ballots contain more ...
Saari
Saari@...
May 6, 1998 11:16 pm
121
... To avoid the problem of dictatorial control of the agenda, and to ensure the greatest chances to find good solutions to issues, I support the basic ...
Saari
Saari@...
May 6, 1998 11:16 pm
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... The problem is that it is up to the ballot committee to decide "for us" whether or not do-nothing "makes sense" and therefore whether or not to include it....
Saari
Saari@...
May 6, 1998 11:21 pm
125
sorry for this email, but i accidentally deleted my initial email from the list and i cannot remember how to unsubscribe. if you would be kind enough to...
Kevin Toyne
ktoyne@...
May 6, 1998 11:40 pm
127
Demorep1 wrote-- I repeat my suggested remedy - the highest percentage of all of the members of the body who want a a vote on an issue should determine the...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 7, 1998 12:46 am
129
Dera Mike, ... Given a ranked ballot one can create a rated ballot, where the ratings are '1st-rank' , etc. If you convert a rank to a rate and back again, you...
David Marsay
djmarsay@...
May 7, 1998 4:31 pm
131
In a sketchy three page article published in the book Choosing An Electoral System (Arend Lijphart & Bernard Grofman, eds.), Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn...
Gary Swing
gwswing@...
May 7, 1998 4:45 pm
133
The obvious extreme example-- 50 districts, 1000 voters in each district (50,000 total votes), in every district the Party X candidate gets 501 votes (total...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 7, 1998 9:52 pm
135
... I think that the level of "prone to manipulation" depends on the method of tallying as well as the method of voting, so the above claim is over-general. ...
Saari
Saari@...
May 7, 1998 11:46 pm
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I note again for real public elections- a candidate is or is not elected to an executive or judicial office (i.e. yes or no). Only candidates that rate above 0...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 8, 1998 1:04 am
139
... ...and ballots that contain 500 word essays about each of the candidates contatin even more information. However, that information isn't necessarily...
Rob Lanphier
robla@...
May 8, 1998 7:48 am
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... If "do nothing" is a write-in option, there's no committee involved. Rob Lanphier robla@... http://www.eskimo.com/~robla...
Rob Lanphier
robla@...
May 8, 1998 7:51 am
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... By "information", I meant "information which can be tallied toward a final score in an objective, definable manner". Essay-type ballots contain info that...
Saari
Saari@...
May 10, 1998 7:41 am
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... Yes, but "write-in" votes are only really possible in a "vote your top choice" method (which has other clear flaws such as the vote-splitting problem). I...
Saari
Saari@...
May 10, 1998 7:41 am
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Mr. Saari wrote: I do not believe it is possible to include write-in votes in any ranked voting scheme - because there is no data whatsoever regarding that...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 11, 1998 3:23 am
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... As I have previously suggested, a voter could be permitted to rank some candidates above, and others below, unranked candidates. Similarly, the voter...
Hugh Tobin
htobin@...
May 11, 1998 4:22 am
151
You have supplied a single situation and given us an assumed conclusion, but the question as to whether a tallying method can be defined which makes any sense...
Saari
Saari@...
May 11, 1998 3:16 pm
153
I consider Mike Saari's suggestions very sensible for many voting situations. However, I think that if used in UK general elections, the result could be...
David Marsay
djmarsay@...
May 12, 1998 8:58 pm
155
Mr. Davidson's "Comments on the Election Method to replace MMP" prompted the below. It is possible to have district winners and a legislative body with a semi-...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 20, 1998 10:49 pm
157
errata- In Example 2 the quota should be 500 not 501....
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 21, 1998 6:02 pm
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A. For electing a single executive/ judicial officer, there is the following possible method- The voters vote YES or NO on each candidate and number vote for...
DEMOREP1
DEMOREP1@...
May 24, 1998 3:47 am
161
I left this list some time ago, saying that I was retiring, but I'd like to briefly postpone that retirement. If you were here when I was here before, I should...
Mike Ositoff
ntk@...
Jun 6, 1998 9:03 am
163
Dear Mike O, Welcome Back! I liked what you said when you wrote: "The Lesser-of-Two-Evils problem is gotten rid of when we can cast a full-strength,...
New Democracy
donald@...
Jun 6, 1998 2:36 pm
165
... So far so good. Thanks for the agreement with that lesser-evil principle. ... I most surely did not say that each voter has only 1 vote. How could he/she...
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