Here's a Select Committee report on the election of the Speaker of the
House of Commons, in case you haven't kept abreast of developments in this
area. A reform was thought necessary when the election of a new Speaker
took some seven hours on 23 October 2000.
was: Unicameral/Polycameral Legislatures
After playing a bit with binary-tree legislatures, I've come to the
conclusion that while it does a good job representing regional interests
(put a dam/interstate highway/government office in my district!), it doesn't
do as good a job reflecting diffuse
I concur with Adam. Once you support ranking, unless you've heard of
Condorcet the runoff idea makes intuitive sense, since plenty of places in
the US use 2-stage runoff. The question is how to sell Condorcet over IRV.
My original message was prompted by an argument with a very intelligent
Adam wrote in part-
Approval, on the other hand, makes the most sense to those who have only
been exposed to lone mark plurality. It is an obvious improvement once you
get a decent amount of information about it, and of course it costs nothing
to implement. I would push for approval voting
Alex writes, Once you support ranking, unless you've heard of
Condorcet the runoff idea makes intuitive sense, since plenty of places in
the US use 2-stage runoff...
All sorts of unnecessary complications can make 'intuitive sense'. All one
needs is a mental commitment to be (gratuitously)
Joe wrote:
Alex writes, Once you support ranking, unless you've heard of
Condorcet the runoff idea makes intuitive sense, since plenty of places
in the US use 2-stage runoff...
All sorts of unnecessary complications can make 'intuitive sense'. All one
needs is a mental commitment to be
Stephane wrote:
If Mr. Ossipoff would have registered without voting,
Ranked Pair would have win.
I reply:
But I've been trying to register for the poll ever since it started.
I suspect that maybe the reason why I can't register is because I
don't have 2 e-mail addresses, and the signup form
In a message dated 4/24/02 11:28:58 PM, Alex wrote:
I know you've probably explained it before briefly, but could you lay out
what number voting is? I'm interested to learn of any methods that take us
in the right direction, and right now the only ones I know of are Approval
and Condorcet.
Adam does have a point, that people to whom IRV has been promoted
are more likely to insist on rank-balloting. That's especially or
mostly true of organizational IRV proponents, or people who've
been completely sold on IRV.
But those people are often or usually impossible to reach. There
are 2
