On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Craig Carey wrote:
> > Forest Simmons is sort of arguing for the rights of electorates but not > for rights of voters. > Actually I wasn't arguing for anybody's rights. I was more interested in customer satisfaction. Perhaps you read "partition" as "petition" , or it could be that some words have different denotations or connotations on opposite sides of the big pond. Craig, I think that we could make more progress in our dialogue if you would give us your definition of a voting system. I wonder if your definition of voting method is general enough to include all (or even most) of the systems we have been talking about on the EM list. That could be the source of your obvious frustration. If I had your definition (of voting method) in your language (formal or not), I might be able to give a definition (to your satisfaction) of what I consider a voting system to be in the same (or similar) language, so that you could, for example, see how Buddha Buck's definition of Approval fits into that general framework. We're having trouble communicating, and we don't want to take a chance of some good ideas being lost because of that :-) Forest
