James Fishkin often invites discussion of his deliberative polls in the NCDD list. Here, on the California poll, for example: http://lists.thataway.org/scripts/wa-THATAWAY.exe?A1=ind1107C&L=NCDD-DISCUSSION#1
-- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Jameson Quinn wrote: > This is an interesting attempt. I think that most of us would support more > of this kind of thing. > > http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/ > > Aside from the interest of the methodology, people here might be interested > in the content. The California "deliberative > poll"<http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/california/>had two questions of > interest: > > Allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference, so that the > winner can be > decided without a second election. (61% support before, 58% after) > > > Elect more than one representative from each Assembly and Senate district > with the > winners receiving seats proportional to votes (48% support before, 49% > after) > > > I'm personally disappointed that support did not significantly increase on > either question. I suspect that there was not a lot of discussion of these > issues. Still, it is interesting to see the raw results and demographic > breakdowns on these questions. > > Jameson Quinn ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
