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10817	I hve this example on my page (in Finnish) at the end of the chapter on Hare-Niemeyer. Probably not close enough for you. 19 seats 550, 470, 250, 160 7, 6, 4,...	Olli Salmi olli.salmi@...	Feb 1, 2003 11:02 am
10818	Nope, not close enough, but it gives me some new ideas on scenarios to look for. Thanks. -Adam ... For more information about this list (subscribe,...	Adam Tarr atarr@...	Feb 1, 2003 5:12 pm
10819	Made a couple of changes to my voting site with respect to input and Ranked Pairs. One can now enter ballots of the like 10:0>1>2 Also, considering the...	ericgorr@...	Feb 1, 2003 6:43 pm
10820	Eric Gore's interactive count programs for Ranked-Pairs & BeatpathWinner, at http://www.ericgorr.net/condorcet/index.php are the only such programs that I've...	MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp@...	Feb 2, 2003 7:46 am
10821	... Thanks Mike. Btw, the main.cpp file that was first there was my first pass at the code. The real one is now up ...	ericgorr@...	Feb 2, 2003 6:18 pm
10822	The Condorcet_DD PERL script found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48126 has line commands that also produce Mike's preferred outcome....	matt matt matt@...	Feb 2, 2003 7:26 pm
10823	Hagel owns and operates the machines that counted his votes in Nebraska. There's lots more, too. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm ...	Narins, Josh josh.narins@...	Feb 3, 2003 6:40 pm
10824	If I am not mistaken, Adam's 'Population paradox' has a venerable history in apportionment of the US House of Representatives, where at one point it was known...	Joe Weinstein jweins123@...	Feb 4, 2003 1:32 am
10825	Joe, ` I thought I'd mention this a few times :) Huntington is no longer used, the "Method of Equal Proportions" is. (simple explanation of method: Step 1....	Narins, Josh josh.narins@...	Feb 4, 2003 1:55 pm
10826	I put the best translation I can produce (and add my comments in parenthesis). Markus, If one wants to apply what we have just said to the case when (where)...	Stephane Rouillon stephane.rouillon@...	Feb 4, 2003 7:02 pm
10827	Thanks to Joe Malkevich and Josh Narins for correcting hazy recollections (mine - and maybe others' as well). I wouldn't go so far as to say that MEP is...	Joe Weinstein jweins123@...	Feb 4, 2003 10:57 pm
10828	... Has anybody proposed that the number of seats float below the maximum in order to take advantage of this possibility? Then one could use a multidimensional...	Forest Simmons fsimmons@...	Feb 5, 2003 12:12 am
10829	Dear Readers, Like deciding what election method is "best" or "fairest" there are similar difficulties for apportionment. There are mathematical theorems which...	Joseph Malkevitch joeyc@...	Feb 5, 2003 12:58 am
10830	... Oops - You have to mean 1998, when there was general ENTHUSIASM over McCall's performance in the previous 4 years. ... One thing that complicates this is...	Dave Ketchum davek@...	Feb 5, 2003 3:16 am
10831	A bias over time for small states? I think they are entirely incorrect. Over time, half the small states will have an advantage, half will be at a ...	Narins, Josh josh.narins@...	Feb 5, 2003 4:32 pm
10832	... Forest, I am very sorry. I am too lazy. When the 2000 census was being handled, this issue could have been broached by me, but I did nothing. I was not, in...	Narins, Josh josh.narins@...	Feb 5, 2003 4:37 pm
10833	... Webster's method favours large and small states (or parties) equally. http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0401/040117.html Olli Salmi ... For more information about...	Olli Salmi olli.salmi@...	Feb 5, 2003 6:13 pm
10834	The article is kinda funny. One, as I already showed, the smallest states get less than their share in 2000, and they got less than their share in 1990 (which...	Narins, Josh josh.narins@...	Feb 5, 2003 6:38 pm
10835	Dear Josh, The way the so called 5 divisor methods work is that each has an objective function which works with regards to pairs of states. One can think of...	Joseph Malkevitch joeyc@...	Feb 5, 2003 7:26 pm
10836	Dear Josh, If one looks at the censuses since 1890 when Montana was admitted to the union you will see that sometimes Huntington-Hill gave it more seats than...	Joseph Malkevitch joeyc@...	Feb 5, 2003 7:41 pm
10837	Dear Olli, Although Balinski and Young support Webster over Huntington-Hill it seems that there are other points of view in trying to see which of these...	Joseph Malkevitch joeyc@...	Feb 5, 2003 7:45 pm
10838	I ran across this: David Meyer and Thad Brown, "Statistical Mechanics of Voting", _Physical Review Letters_, Volume 81, page 1718-1721 I haven't read it yet,...	Alex Small asmall@...	Feb 5, 2003 10:54 pm
10839	Many thanks to Joe Malkevich (Archive Message 10835) for the web reference (http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0401/040117.html) to Young�s very readable and useful...	Joe Weinstein jweins123@...	Feb 6, 2003 12:08 am
10840	... In actuality if the small states had exact proportional representation, they would have less voting power per citizen than the large states. See EM...	Forest Simmons fsimmons@...	Feb 6, 2003 12:38 am
10841	Dear Joe, Since the Constitution indicates that each state should get at least one seat the authors of that document worried to some extent about state equity....	Joseph Malkevitch joeyc@...	Feb 6, 2003 1:22 am
10842	ADVERTISEMENT Matt wrote: The Condorcet_DD PERL script found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48126 has line commands that also produce...	MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp@...	Feb 6, 2003 2:01 am
10843	I have to retract my proof that any 3-candidate/1-winner ranked election method that satisifies strong FBC is equivalent to "Top 2 Voting." One crucial point...	Alex Small asmall@...	Feb 6, 2003 6:28 am
10844	I would note one thing about MEP and the rule that each state gets one Rep. If you skip the first step of MEP (where each state gets 1) and just start ...	Narins, Josh josh.narins@...	Feb 6, 2003 2:41 pm
10845	It seems reasonable that if S is a ballot set with a definite winner X, and T is any other ballot set, then sufficiently many copies of S added to T should...	Forest Simmons fsimmons@...	Feb 6, 2003 9:03 pm
10846	... <causing trouble> Shall we take a vote? Now, we just need to decide on the method... ;-) </causing trouble> -- == Eric Gorr =========...	Eric Gorr ericgorr@...	Feb 6, 2003 9:29 pm

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