Alex wrote: > Before we sell the public on Condorcet we need to get ourselves heard > over the cacaphony of pro-IRV voices. Seen in that light, the new > Approval Voting organization seems like a much better horse to back in > any race.
Obviously, I couldn't agree more. :-) Thanks so much to all of you who have joined CAV. Those who haven't, please check us out at http://www.approvalvoting.org/ . > So I put that issue pretty low on the list of things to care about. If > other people find it stimulating to debate that, have fun, but I'm > agnostic on it for all practical purposes. Really I am too by this point, which explains my long silence on the boring margins/winning-votes debate. I just have to chime in every once in a while for the sake of newcomers who might get the impression that there's wide agreement on the list that winning-votes is superior. > Keep this in mind about selling the public on winning votes or margins: > Nobody says "Bush won Florida with <number of votes>", they say "Bush won > Florida by 537 votes" or whatever the final margin was. Excellent point . . . I never thought of it that way. ===== Rob LeGrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.approvalvoting.org/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
