Re: [EM] Score Voting and Approval Voting not practically substantially different from Plurality?

2013-06-24 Thread Kathy Dopp
Please forward to the appropriate list for me. Thank you. From: electionscie...@googlegroups.com [mailto:electionscie...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Grant Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 11:40 AM On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Stephen Unger un...@cs.columbia.edu

Re: [EM] Score Voting and Approval Voting not practically substantially different from Plurality?

2013-06-24 Thread Kathy Dopp
Bejamin, I think we fundamentally agree about most things except for one statement you made (I think you're seeing some disagreement where there is none), which is why I'll only respond to this. You said Since this isn't fixed, tell me what the benefit of Approval is in the real world over

Re: [EM] Conceiving a Democratic Electoral Process

2012-07-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
candidate. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View some

Re: [EM] Is Helios online voting secure?

2012-02-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
-02-22#ixzz1nDPGFUVN Subscribe: http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/signup?sourceform=Viral-Tynt-FierceGovernmentIT-FierceGovernmentIT On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/2/23 Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com 2012/2/22 Kathy Dopp kathy.d

Re: [EM] Does Range need an abstention/participation tally?

2012-02-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
it is absolutely necessary). Jameson-- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http

[EM] Is Helios online voting secure?

2012-02-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
approx. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View

Re: [EM] Egg or Chicken.

2011-12-16 Thread Kathy Dopp
, and on and on...) Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View

[EM] San Francisco considers getting rid of IRV

2011-12-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/12/san-francisco-board-supervisors-breaks-ranks-voting-system -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security

[EM] State's top-two runoff system under legal fire by political parties

2011-11-30 Thread Kathy Dopp
. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View some of my

Re: [EM] Approval vs. IRV

2011-11-27 Thread Kathy Dopp
nonmonotonicity and huge administrative, technical, auditability and other practical problems. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security

Re: [EM] PR election results

2011-11-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
I tried to vote by registering and then returning on a later day to vote and was unable to find any link to the vote page without going through the register page, which I had already done. Thus, I did not vote. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One

[EM] Poll for favorite multi-winner voting systemElection-Methods Digest, Vol 89, Issue 43

2011-11-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
-- WIGM STV (eg, Scottish STV) -- Other STV -- Approval voting The poll will close on November 20 and I will report results shortly thereafter. best, Jeff -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil

Re: [EM] Fwd: Ranked Choice Voting a Clear Winner in St. Paul Elections

2011-11-12 Thread Kathy Dopp
55419-0440 United States i...@fairvotemn.org (763) 807-2550 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/attachments/2011/4631699e/attachment-0001.htm Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] Proportional, Accountable, Local (PAL) representation: isn't this a big deal?

2011-10-25 Thread Kathy Dopp
. Isn't that so? I did not realize that Jefferson supported a proportional system of electing representatives. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy

Re: [EM] Reposted - New measure of population density fairness for judging proportional fairness of redistricting plans

2011-10-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote: I have looked further at the PDF measure, and I've found a more-serious problem. Using your examples, imagine that the central city, instead of containing 60 Democrats, contains a homogeneous mix of 40 Democrats and

Re: [EM] Redistricting Paper w/ New Population Density Fairness (PDF) measure

2011-10-21 Thread Kathy Dopp
on this topic is here:    http://rangevoting.org/TheorDistrict.html -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org? -- add your endorsement (by clicking endorse as 1st step) -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation

Re: [EM] Redistricting Paper w/ New Population Density Fairness

2011-10-21 Thread Kathy Dopp
a comment. Jameson Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174

[EM] Redistricting Paper w/ New Population Density Fairness (PDF) measure

2011-10-20 Thread Kathy Dopp
To measure whether a plan is proportionately fair -- giving both urban and rural dwellers representation roughly proportional to their population -- this attached article now introduces an objective, nonpartisan population density fairness (PDF) measure for evaluating when a plan produces

[EM] Redistricting Paper w/ New Population Density Fairness (PDF) measure

2011-10-20 Thread Kathy Dopp
redistricting plans for regions having diverse population densities. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals

Re: [EM] Redistricting Paper w/ New Population Density Fairness (PDF) measure

2011-10-20 Thread Kathy Dopp
pretend to be. So this is not really a criticism; more just a comment. Jameson 2011/10/20 Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com FYI,  This is pretty exciting stuff re. redistricting. I've been working for the last several weeks on this and believe I may have derived a new, and fairly simple

Re: [EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 88, Issue 39

2011-10-19 Thread Kathy Dopp
to be removed from each tied candidate? And why is this a good tie-breaking method? Thanks. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals

Re: [EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 87, Issue 54

2011-09-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
Gilmour            35 AC            34 BC            31 C            48 AC            47 BC             5 C Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best

Re: [EM] Weak Condorcet Winners

2011-09-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
the powers available to the president (veto power and appointment power in the DoJ) and appointed the same people who helped cause the financial crisis to try to solve it (which doesn't work), and thus has squandered his opportunities to a large measure. -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement (Jameson Quinn)

2011-09-11 Thread Kathy Dopp
-- ___ Election-Methods mailing list Election-Methods@lists.electorama.com http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com End of Election-Methods Digest, Vol 87, Issue 27 -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement (Jameson Quinn)

2011-09-11 Thread Kathy Dopp
unnecessary details that people may not agree upon. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Renewable energy is homeland security. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http

Re: [EM] Fix Philly Districts (Warren Smith)

2011-09-07 Thread Kathy Dopp
as stupid and incredibly-ultra-stupid measures, respectively:   http://rangevoting.org/TheorDistrict.html -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org? -- add your endorsement (by clicking endorse as 1st step) and math.temple.edu/~wds/homepage/works.html -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] the meaning of a vote (or lack thereof)

2011-08-29 Thread Kathy Dopp
there are no routine procedures in place to detect such tampering. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View

Re: [EM] Weighted voting systems for proportional representation

2011-07-24 Thread Kathy Dopp
difference - regardless of whether the number of seats is known in advance or not. I was only considering contests where the # of seats are known in my remarks. Thus, I do not think that your definitions are sufficient for evaluating methods. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town

Re: [EM] Weighted voting systems for proportional representation

2011-07-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
, range, or approval) as input. I like it - although I've not examined it in depth in a spreadsheet yet. As a single-winner method, it reduces to Range or Borda respectively. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil

Re: [EM] Weighted voting systems for proportional representation

2011-07-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com I don't think that passes DPC (since Borda doesn't pass Majority), but it passes the weaker force proportionality criterion (in that an 1/n

Re: [EM] Weighted voting systems for proportional representation

2011-07-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
time soon). On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com I don't think that passes

Re: [EM] PR for USA or UK

2011-07-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
a substantial number of persons nationwide. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View some of my

Re: [EM] What's wrong with the party list system?

2011-07-05 Thread Kathy Dopp
the integrity of outcomes. Both IRV and STV pose a serious threat the fairness and integrity of elections IMO and I oppose these methods strongly. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-05 Thread Kathy Dopp
is not equivalent to the other, so No. Sorry. Too busy today to go through the rest of your statements currently. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
by more voters. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View some of my research on my SSRN

Re: [EM] What's wrong with the party list system?

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
From: Juho Laatu juho4...@yahoo.co.uk To: EM election-methods@lists.electorama.com Subject: Re: [EM] What's wrong with the party list system? On 4.7.2011, at 4.08, Kathy Dopp wrote: Thanks for the responses.  In response to the party leaders having too much control, I believe

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
a different set of candidates over the ones elected by Droop. Interesting. Kathy On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Let me pull an old example again

Re: [EM] What's wrong with the party list system?

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
- which would be probably only administratively and voter practical for electing smaller, more local bodies of representatives.) -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
of government in your example, without the use of the Droop quota criteria. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: I do not like this system and believe it is improper to call it Condorcet. It seems to have all the same flaws as IRV - hiding the lower choice votes of voters, except if the voter voted

Re: [EM] What's wrong with the party list system?

2011-07-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
is that it gives control to party elites - those who select the party candidates and decide order on which they come on said list. Personally I think there are many ways to overcome that problem, and it can be a good method. What, for instance? Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie

Re: [EM] Condorcet divisor method proportional representation

2011-07-02 Thread Kathy Dopp
are elected, they produce the transitive candidate set order AD AB BC CD.? The next highest priority relation CD AD is excluded since the higher priority relations have determined that AD CD.? According to this procedure, candidates A and D are elected. -Ross Hyman -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] C//A

2011-06-12 Thread Kathy Dopp
tie breaker. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 View some of my research on my SSRN

Re: [EM] Theoretical Issues In Districting

2011-06-11 Thread Kathy Dopp
to and will add a few comments suggested by Warren Smith to me in email to it in the next revision. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections

Re: [EM] Remember Toby

2011-06-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
of the asset votes were cast for that person. But it's probably not a good idea - just a passing thought. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals

Re: [EM] Remember Toby

2011-06-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
should we call it? Can anybody think of a better deterministic voting method for a single winner public proposal? Forest -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts

[EM] Remember Toby

2011-06-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
be simple to program counting (simply add up all the two candidate votes and tally all the bullet votes for each candidate, plus the 2nd vote from the list of candidate 2nd approvals). However, I still like Condorcet as a method if we're willing to add ballot complexity of rank choice ballots. Kathy

Re: [EM] Remember Toby

2011-06-03 Thread Kathy Dopp
for by at most one. Kathy On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/3 Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com From: Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com To: fsimm...@pcc.edu Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Subject: Re: [EM] Remember Toby

Re: [EM] Remember Toby (fsimm...@pcc.edu)

2011-06-01 Thread Kathy Dopp
 sample ballots recommended by the various candidates. Asset voting makes this automatic for 100% of the voters.  That's probably going too far, so how do we get a compromise between Asset voting and Condorcet? -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One

Re: [EM] Remember toby

2011-05-29 Thread Kathy Dopp
be hard to explain to the general public. I like Condorcet in general. I also like Approval because it is so simple and could be done using today's voting systems (hardware) and ballots. Thanks. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any

Re: [EM] a question about apportionment

2011-04-18 Thread Kathy Dopp
proposing that the federal government do all the counting of votes? Or what new federal laws are you proposing to force the election admin procedures to be the same within multi-state districts? One or more constitutional amendment(s)? I assume you've arranged these with roughly equal population. Kathy

[EM] Why is wikipedia so biased pro-IRV?

2011-02-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
is it, the Fair[rytale] Vote crowd?, that controls the IRV wikipedia? I am curious as to the story. Thank you. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable

Re: [EM] Why care about later-no-harm or prohibiting candidate burial?

2011-02-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
to be avoided. I'm glad we seem to agree that later-no-harm is not a good feature of a voting system because it prevents compromise. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts

[EM] Why care about later-no-harm or prohibiting candidate burial?

2011-02-21 Thread Kathy Dopp
I can't help wondering why anyone would think it beneficial to have either later-no-harm or burial prevention in a voting method. Here is why: 1. later-no-harm prevents finding compromise candidates, and thus is not a desirable feature of a voting method, and 2. if a voter tries to bury a

Re: [EM] High precision Yee diagrams

2011-01-27 Thread Kathy Dopp
matter? Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http

Re: [EM] a Borda-Condorcet relation

2011-01-08 Thread Kathy Dopp
not beat X pairwise.? There is a range 1=c(X,Y)=(n/2) - 1 in which either X beats Y or they tie - both are possible. ? As calculating the median is relatively expensive, the above probably is not useful as an algorithm. Any thoughts? Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY

[EM] The odd IRV numbers (in NC)

2011-01-06 Thread Kathy Dopp
for candidates. Kathy Dopp, LWV, NYS The odd IRV numbers Posted by Doug Clark on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 10:30 am I think we've seen the last of IRV voting in North Carolina, State of Elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett told me this week. I

Re: [EM] The odd IRV numbers (in NC)

2011-01-06 Thread Kathy Dopp
cooperation of all NC county election officials to truly investigate this in detail. It looks like the NC State Board of Elections is trying to keep this quiet by being stingy about sharing the data file I got a hold of. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [EM] breakdown of Oakland mayor ballots

2010-11-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
and lack of auditability when the chance is so high of not getting a good outcome like this whenever the result differs from plurality. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true

Re: [EM] breakdown of Oakland mayor ballots

2010-11-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
to (then) win. It is fortunate for them that those Perata-hating voters stayed home! IRV is is hardly worth all the extra costs and complexity and lack of auditability when the chance is so high of not getting a good outcome like this whenever the result differs from plurality. Kathy Dopp

Re: [EM] My Favorite Deterministic Condorcet Efficient Method: TACC

2010-11-09 Thread Kathy Dopp
mathematics for post-election audits - might be a challenge to figure out how to limit the risk of certifying an incorrect candidate. Do you have a multi-winner version or a proportional representation version? Regards, -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best

Re: [EM] MCA on electowiki

2010-10-18 Thread Kathy Dopp
://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Arrow%27s_Theorem by simultaneously satisfying monotonicity and independence of irrelevant alternativeshttp://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Independence_of_irrelevant_alternatives (as well as of course sovereignty and non-dictatorship). -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] MCA on electowiki

2010-10-18 Thread Kathy Dopp
of Participation Criterion that you linked to says: Adding one or more ballots that vote X over Y should never change the winner from X to Y. so failing the criteria means adding more votes having X Y would change the winner from X to Y. i.e. failing monotonicity. Kathy 2010/10/18 Kathy Dopp kathy.d

Re: [EM] Schulze Method (Markus Schulze)

2010-09-19 Thread Kathy Dopp
than the old version (because, in the new version, I use one and only one heuristic for the Schulze method). The proofs are simpler because I moved the random ballot tie-breaker from section 2 to section 5. Markus Schulze Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304

[EM] Fwd: [POLMETH] Notice of Paper Posting to Political Methodology

2010-08-24 Thread Kathy Dopp
visit:          http://polmeth.wustl.edu/polmeth.php ** -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Realities

[EM] True Ranked Choice - for Condorcet

2010-08-23 Thread Kathy Dopp
will establish GMV- friendly webpages asap so that one or more GMV-related urls can be pointed to that page immediately, and some of the url ownership rights can be transferred also. -lee -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any

Re: [EM] Impartial culture with truncation? (Kristofer Munsterhjelm)

2010-07-16 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: Kristofer, If you are trying to generate disproofs of criterion compliance then using equal probability of selecting each ballot type for each voter may be preventing you from generating

Re: [EM] Impartial culture with truncation? (Kristofer Munsterhjelm)

2010-07-15 Thread Kathy Dopp
). Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/RCV-IRV/InstantRunoffVotingFlaws.pdf Voters Have

Re: [EM] The worst about each system; Approval Preferential

2010-05-26 Thread Kathy Dopp
safe. Ranking candidates according to what is easy, and not ranking the rest, with good ballot and system design, then uses the ranking as evidence of clear -- i.e., relatively strong -- preference, and the not-ranking as lack of preference. Isn't that what it means? -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] The worst about each system; Approval Preferential

2010-05-26 Thread Kathy Dopp
Yes. I agree with your scenario of not needing a runoff Abd ul. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 09:33 PM 5/26/2010, Kathy Dopp wrote: Abd ul, I agree with virtually everything you say here. Thanks.  However, I would also consider

Re: [EM] The worst about each system; Approval Preferential

2010-05-26 Thread Kathy Dopp
plus preferences is over the second-highest base score; and nevertheless, it would frequently be only two candidates, removing the need for any fancy counting at all. JQ -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil

Re: [EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

2010-05-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
to happen in the Assembly! (Unless this becomes direct/asset democracy, which allows the electors to continue to exercise voting power when they so choose, seats are only elected for representation in deliberation and default voting power.) -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town

Re: [EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

2010-05-20 Thread Kathy Dopp
Approval voting uses a different satisfaction metric. Each voter is consider to have satisfaction of 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + + 1/N where N is the number of approved candidates who are elected. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep

Re: [EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

2010-05-20 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: Would that system still be additive like SAV is? Not sure how you obtain the satisfaction scores for each possible group of winning candidates or candidate satisfaction scores from voters

[EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

2010-05-19 Thread Kathy Dopp
time sometime this summer to explain this method in a simple way that everyone can understand in case the authors' paper is difficult for some to read. Cheers, Kathy Dopp Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

2010-05-19 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: No one on this list seemed to find the time to look up this reference to a better additive proportional representation system using approval ballots that I pointed out to this list a couple

Re: [EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

2010-05-19 Thread Kathy Dopp
is analogous to STV's Woodall vote management (don't vote for a candidate that would otherwise win), I meant, of course, Hylland vote management. Woodall vote management involves prefixing the vote with preferences for no-hopes, and as such isn't relevant in this context. -- Kathy Dopp http

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-11 Thread Kathy Dopp
honesty hurt your feelings, but I am trying to get you to think outside your box and do some reality-checking, and I lack patience for people who pretend and mischaracterize so much. It's one of my flaws. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-10 Thread Kathy Dopp
their votes help their last choice candidate win the election. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-10 Thread Kathy Dopp
methods. There are methods that are a step forward from plurality. IRV/STV are not among them. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-10 Thread Kathy Dopp
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:19:45 -0400 From: robert bristow-johnson r...@audioimagination.com To: election-methods Methods election-methods@lists.electorama.com On May 10, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote: Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:55:19 -0400 From: robert bristow-johnson r

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-09 Thread Kathy Dopp
, than yours, so in your way of thinking, then that makes *you* the liar, doesn't it? Enough today of rebutting BS. Gotta do other work. Cheers, -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-09 Thread Kathy Dopp
the issue that the exclusion of voters from participating in IRV/STV is INVOLUNTARY and all voters are allowed freely to participate in the 2nd round of a real runoff election, at their pleasure. IRV/STV BS patrol continues. Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-09 Thread Kathy Dopp
that Condorcet, Approval and other methods that can also be applied in PR elections would be far less problematic and destructive of voting rights and even be an improvement over plurality. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any

Re: [EM] piling on against IRV

2010-05-08 Thread Kathy Dopp
creative definition of majority, the likes of which no one has ever heard of before, not surprising anyone coming from you Terry? OK. I've had enough of utter-BS rebutting today. Sigh. Time to wash dishes instead. ;-) -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party

2010-04-26 Thread Kathy Dopp
that party receives. There may be more than one counting procedure for party list systems. Cheers, Kathy Dopp Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:24:47 +0200 From: Peter Zbornik pzbor...@gmail.com To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Subject: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech

Re: [EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Green party

2010-04-26 Thread Kathy Dopp
. The Utah Republican party just dropped (stopped) using IRV for their own primary elections. I would highly recommend against using STV for *any* purpose. Cheers, Kathy On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 12:06 PM 4/26/2010, Kathy Dopp wrote

[EM] Why is Germany's electoral system non-monotonic?

2010-04-24 Thread Kathy Dopp
explain that to me? Apparently the courts or people in Germany have decided to remedy (eliminate) the nonmonotonicity before the next major election. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support

Re: [EM] Approximating Non-Summable Methods with Summable Methods

2010-04-04 Thread Kathy Dopp
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:52:08 + (GMT) From: fsimm...@pcc.edu To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Subject: [EM] Approximating Non-Summable Methods with Summable Methods Message-ID: e4f0cf4ca370.4bb7c...@pcc.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Recently Kathy Dopp

Re: [EM] Proportional Representation Systems I'd Support

2010-03-27 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 04:43 PM 3/26/2010, Kathy Dopp wrote: Well that would certainly be a way of overcoming any effective minority representation in legislatures by always making sure that the representative elected by a majority

Re: [EM] Proportional Representation Systems I'd Support

2010-03-26 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no wrote: Kathy Dopp wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:01 PM, election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com wrote: Send Election-Methods mailing list submissions to       election-methods@lists.electorama.com From

Re: [EM] Proportional Representation Systems I'd Support

2010-03-25 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:01 PM, election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com wrote: Send Election-Methods mailing list submissions to        election-meth...@lists.electorama.com From: Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-el...@broadpark.no To: Raph Frank raph...@gmail.com It sounds more like a

Re: [EM] Proportional Representation Systems I'd Support

2010-03-22 Thread Kathy Dopp
Upon cursory reflection and in response to my strong opposition to any nonmonotonic method and to any method that fail to treat all voters' votes equally, the only proportional method I know I would support for legislative representation would be the party list system where candidates appear only

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representationvssimple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-20 Thread Kathy Dopp
, should be your choice. Power to the voters. Count all the Votes. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts. Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representationvssimple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-15 Thread Kathy Dopp
to the large number of rounds required.  The candidate list method gives some of the flexibility of PR-STV and the national level proportionality of party list systems. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vs simple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
otherwise be anonymized. Under this scheme, candidates would not vote in the general election directly, they would vote by identified ballot.) -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vs simple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-13 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Raph Frank raph...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com wrote: Abd ul, I agree with virtually all you say that I had time to read, but would prefer party list voting over asset voting simply because it forces the #1

Re: [EM] Legal brief vs. San Francisco limited IRV

2010-03-09 Thread Kathy Dopp
I agree with virtually everything you say here Abd ul. Kathy On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 11:21 PM 3/7/2010, Kathy Dopp wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 12:39 AM 3/7/2010, Kathy

Re: [EM] Legal brief vs. San Francisco limited IRV

2010-03-09 Thread Kathy Dopp
this here.     TTR is not the best to hope for.     Condorcet is good.     Asset is up to Abd ul to defend. On Mar 9, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:21 PM 3/7/2010, Kathy Dopp wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 12

Re: [EM] Legal brief vs. San Francisco limited IRV

2010-03-07 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 12:39 AM 3/7/2010, Kathy Dopp wrote: I've posted the latest plaintiffs' legal brief here. Plaintiffs Francisco rank only three version of IRV. http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?cat=8 It is actually brilliant

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