Howard Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:18 AM
I feel that the need to look for and design a system around geographic
proportionality is a waist of time (except as a sales pitch).
I believe that geographic proportionality would naturally come out of a
truly proportional system (if it was
Steve,
I can speak first-hand about the reason to have a legislature that is as
broadly diverse as the population, rather than made up of centrist
majoritarians... (I served ten years as a third party member of the
Vermont House of Representatives in the USA).
Society benefits from robust
At 11:18 PM 6/23/2008, Howard wrote:
I feel that the need to look for and design a system around
geographic proportionality is a waist of time (except as a sales pitch).
I believe that geographic proportionality would naturally come out
of a truly proportional system (if it was important to the
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From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED]; EM election-methods@lists.electorama.com
Sent: Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 10:01:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting (Chris Benham)
At 12:55 AM 6/23/2008,
One reason why districts have been kept is that if there were no
districts then voters would have some tendency to vote for the
capital area candidates that have typically better access to TV etc.
There are typically also more popular figures in general at the
capital region. The risk is
On Jun 24, 2008, at 0:34 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
What do you mean by methods that allow candidates to form a
tree like structure? Something like delegable proxy, or just
preference ballots with parties instead of candidates? Or
nontraditional nested democracy (groups elect members to an
On Jun 24, 2008, at 15:44 , Terry Bouricius wrote:
That brings me to an interesting issue, which may be off-topic for
this
list...sortition...the selection of a legislative body by means of
modern sampling methods that assure a fully representative body.
There is
an interesting history of
Hello,
Continuing my commentry on Kathy Dopp's anti-IRV paper, under
Flaws of Instant Runoff Voting we find:
13.
voters may not be allowed to participate in the final selection round of an IRV
election
because all their choices were eliminated before the last counting round.
The only way
At 12:55 AM 6/23/2008, Chris Benham wrote:
Kathy,
Imagine that Approval is used to elect the US President and
as in the current campaign the Republicans are fielding one
candidate, McCain. Does that mean that the big fight for the
Democrat nomination between Clinton and Obama we've just
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:43 PM,
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:45:56 +0300
From: Juho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting
On Jun 24, 2008, at 7:41 , Kathy Dopp wrote:
How does the grass in my lawn stay green when I never water or irrigate it
and I
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