Re: [Election-Methods] Dopp: 1. Does not solve the spoiler problem except in special cases.

2008-06-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:48 PM 6/15/2008, Steve Eppley wrote: Most analyses of spoiling (and voters' strategizing to avoid spoiling) narrowly focus on the candidates who reached the general election ballot. The much bigger spoiling problem is during the nomination process, when candidates choose not to run in

[Election-Methods] Dopp: 1. Does not solve the spoiler problem except in special cases.

2008-06-12 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:50 PM 6/11/2008, Greg wrote: The FairVote document that debunks Dopp's claims is available at: http://www.fairvote.org/dopp Or, more accurately, attempts to debunk. Ms. Dopp is a voting security expert, not an election methods expert, and some of her statements can be flawed,