On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Send Election-Methods mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Election-Methods digest..." > > > Today's Topics: >> From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EM] New MN court affidavits etc. (correction)
> (1) Brown v. Smallwood outlawed preferential voting, period, in > Minnesota. Part of the current problem is that FairVote made a highly > suspect interpretation that tried to assert BvS as being only about > Bucklin, not about a sequential elimination method like IRV. This was > based on a comment in BvS that was practically dicta. Other parts of > BvS made it very clear that casting multiple votes in a single > election was considered unconstitutional by that court. > Abd ul, >From what I can tell, having read all of the affidavits and responses of the plaintiffs (but not being an attorney), the case against IRV is only in very small part based on BvS, and is based more on the requirements of the US and Minnesota constitutions that IRV/STV violate. It may be very likely that BvS could be overturned, yet IRV/STV still declared unconstitutional on grounds that would *not* apply to most other alternative voting methods. Kathy ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
