At 12:20 PM 3/15/2007, Chris Benham wrote: >Yes of course, but I don't regard the nomination process as part of the >election method.
This is the narrow view. One could consider the term "election method" to be broader than that. The broadest definition would be the process by which a group of people come to a common decision. Obviously, nomination, as we understand it, is part of this process. Or you could confine "election method," as Chris does, to a very specific kind of process, perhaps requiring a ballot, with the contents of the ballot as a given. Given that my interest is in actual systemic reform, my own interest is with the broad concept of methods of social choice. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
