RE: the poll

2002-04-14 Thread DEMOREP1
Mr. Ossipoff wrote in part- In the ideal best category I vote for BeatpathWinner(wv)/CSSD. D- Could an example with about 5 choices be done ??? What is the strategy to play games with BeatpathWinner(wv)/CSSD ??? I will make the rash assumption that there is such a strategy and that Mr.

[EM] 04/14/02 - Partisan and Non-Partisan:

2002-04-14 Thread Donald Davison
04/14/02 - Partisan and Non-Partisan: Stéphane Rouillon wrote: First what do you mean by a partisan or non-partisan election (for me any election is partisan except if all voters want to submit a blank ballot)? Dear Stéphane, A partisan election is an election in which almost all the

Re: 04/14/02 - Are you asking other lists to join your contest:

2002-04-14 Thread Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon
Mr. Davison, for the moment I only advertised, not sollicitated and on other multi-preferential lists. The only other list I refered to is a canadian equivalent of the EM list. Please wait until the frequency of the iteration drops to advertise on one preferential list. For the moment I am more

Election of 1860 (was Re: [EM] Action)

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone thought of researching the 1860 Presidential race? Lincoln's win with less than 40% of the popular vote gave us the Civil War. Hi Paul, I've used the 1860 election as an example in the past. It's a classic example of how strong

Re: ACC, more strategy-free?

2002-04-14 Thread Adam Tarr
Mike wrote: That hadn't occurred to me--that there's another non-reversed defensive strategy that always thwarts offensive order-reversal in the wv methods: equal-top-ranking of the CW. Of course the Nader voters might insist that the Gore voters announce publicly that they're going to

[EM] Example Demorep requested

2002-04-14 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
When I began writing this the 1st time, it vanished and the inbox returned. If that meant that an incomplete reply was sent, I don't know how it happened. Demorep wrote: Mr. Ossipoff wrote in part- In the ideal best category I vote for BeatpathWinner(wv)/CSSD. D- Could an example with

Re: ACC strategy-free?

2002-04-14 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Adam wrote: The reason I also like the other equilibrium, however, is that it is more free of concern about what the other camp does. This makes it more stable. If the GoreBush voters are told to bullet vote Gore, but the Bush voters announce that they plan to order-reverse anyway, then you get

[EM] U.S.A. GOVERNMENT, 2003-2005 PRELIMINARY MINORITY RULE MATH

2002-04-14 Thread DEMOREP1
U.S.A. GOVERNMENT, 2003-2005 PRELIMINARY MINORITY RULE MATH Preliminary math as if the 2000 President Votes were being used for the Nov. 2002 Representative Seats and the Nov. 2004 Electoral College PV 2000 PRESIDENT VOTES, S 2003 REP. SEATS, ECV 2004 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES A case is pending