Re: [EM] Top 2+1 Approval primaries

2013-07-26 Thread Peter Gustafsson
from: jameson.qu...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:54:09 -0600 To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com; electionscie...@googlegroups.com Subject: [EM] Top 2+1 Approval primaries Here's a simple proposal for a top-two-like mechanism for primaries, copied from an answer of mine on Quora: The

Re: [EM] Top 2+1 Approval primaries

2013-07-26 Thread Peter Gustafsson
Jameson: I am not a Quora member, and I am not about to sign up. That said, if you want to use the text and answer it there, do go ahead. Yours, Peter Gustafsson From: jameson.qu...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 05:09:58 -0600 Subject: Re: [EM] Top 2+1

Re: [EM] Top 2+1 Approval primaries

2013-07-26 Thread Jameson Quinn
2013/7/26 Peter Gustafsson mining...@hotmail.com from: jameson.qu...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:54:09 -0600 To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com; electionscie...@googlegroups.com Subject: [EM] Top 2+1 Approval primaries Here's a simple proposal for a top-two-like mechanism for

Re: [EM] Top 2+1 Approval primaries

2013-07-25 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
On 07/24/2013 08:54 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: Certainly you could propose complex systems that could be better than this proposal in some ways. For instance, you could use a proportional representation system such as Bucklin Transferrable Voting (BTV) for the first round. But this proposal is a