Greetings, Donald wrote: > ... David wrote: And how would this benefit party voters? Dear David, The Open List would allow the Party Voters the right to...
New Democracy
donald@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:17 pm
2719
Dear Bart, Multi-seat elections have two methods that are like Approval Voting. One is called Plurality-at-Large and the other is called Limited Voting. Don...
New Democracy
donald@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:31 pm
2721
Dear Dennis Lytton, Good for you - you have given the German MMP system two improvements. The Open List in place of the closed list and the single vote in...
New Democracy
donald@...
Dec 1, 1998 1:31 pm
2723
[AL] Markus Schulz has kindly emailed relevant excepts from Brams and Fishburn (1983). Although Markus did not post them to the list and CCed them to Mike ...
Albert.Langer@...
Dec 1, 1998 2:11 pm
2725
Don, I should have specified that I was thinking of an STV-like implementation of Approval. Just using single-seat Approval would give results like...
Bart Ingles
bartman@...
Dec 1, 1998 5:44 pm
2727
... But that would only be voters who voted below the line. Those who voted only for party would basically be referring their choice to an unpredictable...
David Catchpole
s349436@...
Dec 2, 1998 3:00 am
2729
... If I ever get around to completing the article I want to put on EJETPR, it will have some information about how approval (and that would include ...
David Catchpole
s349436@...
Dec 2, 1998 4:04 am
2731
The last time that we opened up parties to popular control, we almost destroyed the American Political System. This occurred in 1974 and sense then the caliber...
Michael A. Schoenfield
maschoen@...
Dec 2, 1998 4:49 am
2733
... So who is qualified to nominate candidates, if not the voting public? And if the voters are not qualified to nominate candidates, how are they qualified to...
Bart Ingles
bartman@...
Dec 2, 1998 7:14 am
2735
[AL] I'm cross-posting this to both a US/international list on election-methods: http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/cpr/election-methods.html and an Australian list...
Albert.Langer@...
Dec 2, 1998 2:12 pm
2737
Mike Osipoff wrote ... As an example, suppose we have candidates L, C, R with C the everyone's first or second choice. (Spatial voting.) If I prefer L but...
David Marsay
djmarsay@...
Dec 2, 1998 2:39 pm
2739
[MO] ... [MO] Wrong. The fact that methods that collect intensity information can ignore everything by the voter's _ordering_ of intensities doesn't mean that...
Albert.Langer@...
Dec 2, 1998 9:36 pm
2741
... From: Blake Cretney [mailto:bcretney@...] Sent: Friday, November 27, 1998 10:40 AM To: election-methods-list@... Subject: Re: Valuation...
Albert.Langer@...
Dec 2, 1998 9:54 pm
2742
[MO] An IRO advocate would answer what I've said by pointing out that as the U.S.'s political situation seems to exist today, you can't regret sincerely voting...
Albert.Langer@...
Dec 2, 1998 9:35 pm
2745
... That would be vulnerable to the criticism that Approval gives some voters too many votes. With ordinary Approval that isn't so, but if you let me give my...
Mike Ositoff
ntk@...
Dec 3, 1998 2:50 am
2747
... We're splitting hairs a bit, aren't we. If it's as you suspect (but haven't verified), that means that, though they aren't choosing the Secretary General...
Mike Ositoff
ntk@...
Dec 3, 1998 3:30 am
2749
Now I am really going to get heat for this, but you ask if the voters are qualified to nominate candidates. I say only those voters who are MEMBERS of the...
Michael A. Schoenfield
maschoen@...
Dec 3, 1998 4:39 am
2751
... When I said the Nader voters won't regret voting for Clinton too, I was talking about the situation where Nader _is_ a sure loser. My point was just that...
Mike Ositoff
ntk@...
Dec 3, 1998 4:39 am
2753
I have suggested having a proxy p.r. method for electing legislative bodies using number voting (1, 2, etc.) and multi- member districts electing N members per...
DEMOREP1@...
Dec 3, 1998 5:17 am
2755
... If you define "intensity-input, stochastic output method" in such a way so that it includes all methods, then the terms lose all of their meaning. If you...
Mike Ositoff
ntk@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:53 am
2757
The single winner case is obviously the limited (i.e. 1) case of the general multi-winner case (such as electing 2 or more judges or sheriffs at the same ...
DEMOREP1@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:56 am
2759
Mr. Schoenfield appears to be a recent member of the EM list. For new folks- a major part of the EM list is involved in having direct nominations on the...
DEMOREP1@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:56 am
2761
[MO] wrote in part-- In the United States, in modern times, PR has proven itself to be a dependable failure. PR proposals ask voters to accept a completely new...
DEMOREP1@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:56 am
2763
Subj: Internet Voting System Standards Date: Wed, Dec 2, 1998 9:12 PM EDT From: pcraft@... X-From: pcraft@... (Paul...
DEMOREP1@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:56 am
2765
The current use of gerrymandered single member districts in the U.S. produces indirect minority rule (along with a denial of any "real" representation for up...
DEMOREP1@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:56 am
2767
... Bart replies: You misunderstood my post, or else I wasn't very clear. I wasn't proposing switching votes from one candidate to another. The phrase ...
Bart Ingles
bartman@...
Dec 3, 1998 7:02 am
2769
Greeting, ... Dear David, How is this minority unpredictable??? Are they going to select a different order of candidates than someone else would select???...
New Democracy
donald@...
Dec 3, 1998 1:31 pm
2771
Your post implies that people vote on the basis of race/ethnicity. I know that there was a history of this behavior, but in recent years (last 20) thyere are...
Michael A. Schoenfield
maschoen@...
Dec 3, 1998 5:27 pm
2773
Your argument seems to have a major flaw. If each representative gets as many votes in the legislature as votes he got in the election, then gerrymander...
Lytton, Dennis
dlytton@...
Dec 3, 1998 6:43 pm
2775
Mr. Lytton wrote in part-- You seem to have a real obsessive fixation on the concept of gerrymandering. ... D- Yes, for a very good reason.---- The minority...
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