04/12/02 - Favorite is the Approval Winner:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, From: Craig Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [EM] When is Mr Ossipoff's "favorite" not a winner? Craig wrote: "I guess we keep reading the EM list and watch Mike revert back to the old position and then note that the EM members never commented on it." Donald: EM members never comment on it because half don't read Mike and the other half believes he is a minor Deity and can `speak no evil' like one of the three monkeys. Craig: "Mike never tells us how he knows who the "favorite" is." Donald: Me Me, ask me, I know, I'll tell you, I've been on this list long enough to know. I solved this dilemma about five years ago on this list. When one of these minor Deities use the term `favorite' that means they have eye-balled all the choices and then they have secretly used Approval Voting to calculate the winner. Without letting on that they used Approval Voting, they announce a big `Divine Revelation from Above', they announce the `favorite'. They will then use this `Divine Revelation from Above' as a standard to prove Approval Voting is the best method because Approval will always elects the `favorite'. (corruption) So, to answer the question: "When is Mr Ossipoff's "favorite" not a winner?" Answer: When some method other than Approval Voting is the method being used in an election. 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.
