04/12/02 - Craig, you wrong me: Craig wrote: "Mr Donald Davison never corrected Mike Ossipoff over this too." (Subject is the policy of Australian voters, not of the big-two parties, to bury their favorite by voting for one of the big-two in first choice position on their ranking.)
Craig, you wrong me. I do not fault anyone for not reading every post of the EM list, but if you had happened to read my post of 3/30/02 you would have seen the following text: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mike wrote: But 3 different Australians have told me that it's common for preferrers of 3rd parties to insincerely rank one of the big-2 in 1st place, so as not to "waste [their] vote". Donald: I don't believe this. Either those three Australians are telling you what you want to hear, if in fact they really did tell you that, or you are only hearing what you want to hear. You are either fooling yourself or are being fooled. In any IRVing election it is stupid "...for preferrers of 3rd parties to insincerely rank one of the big-2 in 1st place..." To do so will reduce the election down to a Plurality election. I would say that you are trying to pass as much misinformation about IRVing as possible so you can promote Approval Voting, the Trojan horse, the actual sick horse of election methods. - - - - - - - - - - - end of copy - - - - - - - - - - - - - What more can be said, after all, you know Mike, trying to pin him down is like putting your thumb on a wet pumpkin seed, they both merely slip away to somewhere else. (Craig dosen't realize that Mike is a minor Deity.) Regards, Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald Candidate Election Methods +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ | Q U O T A T I O N | | "Democracy is a beautiful thing, | | except that part about letting just any old yokel vote." | | - Age 10 - | +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ APV Approval Voting ATV Alternative Vote aka IRV Instant Runoff Voting aka IRVing FPTP First Past The Post aka Plurality NOTA None of the Above aka RON Re-Open Nominations STV Single Transferable Vote aka Preference Voting aka Choice Voting aka Hare Clarke aka Hare Preferential Voting Please be advised that sending email to me allows me to quote from it and/or forward the entire email to others.
