[EM] Suggested name for range voting: free voting

2006-06-21 Thread Anthony O'Neal
I can't believe I missed such a massive flaw...Coming up with an approval-range method not vulnerable to vote management is difficult. For electing a candidate, we consume an amount of voting power from the people who had such a candidate marked by V/ N + 1 (the Bischoff quota) (where V is your

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:21 AM 6/17/2006, Jonathan Lundell wrote: Free-range voting? I'm making an exception to my general avoidance of posting here. Yes, Free Range Voting is a nice name. The Free in it refers to a voter being allowed a broad range of rating levels rather than the black and white of plurality

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread raphfrk
Anthony O'Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: And about the proportional range system I talked about earlier, the workings of the system is obvious. Under PAV rules, you assume that candidates give 1 point to an outcome for having one approved of candidate, 1/3 for the second approved of

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread raphfrk
Anthony O'Neal thasupasacfitinman at gmail.com wrote: Tactical voting works against that. If people tactical vote, then they get no method to express their actual desired. I don't think you understand the method. It was a very short description, but PAV is not vulnerable to

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread Jonathan Lundell
Free-range voting? -- /Jonathan Lundell. election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-16 Thread bql
Yum! Tastes like chicken. On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Jonathan Lundell wrote: Free-range voting? Brian Olson http://bolson.org/ election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

[EM] Suggested name for Range Voting: Free Voting

2006-06-15 Thread Anthony O'Neal
Range voting's name has always sounded slightly of metallic and bland to me. So I propose that we call it the free vote instead, simply because it is probably the least restrictive voting system yet proposed. It doesn't force any rules on people except that they must give points within a specific