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Begin forwarded message: > From: "aGREATER.US" <[email protected]> > Date: November 26, 2012, 9:38:06 PM EST > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [EM] Advocacy > > I'm open to a better voting method. ;o) > > Here are some constraints. It is my experience that because policy work is so > complex, most folk take a pass. That is why I designed this with only 500 > word summaries. I wrote the first five items, and I couldn't reach a > cognizant solution in less words. Tom Atlee, arguably the dean of modern > democracy theory in the US has said my method is valid as long as I get > enough participants. On the other hand, Jim Wise has shown that as few as a > dozen people can arrive at a solution a wider universe will endorse. See the > MacLeans People's Verdict study. I'm not sure my process is as much an > election as it is a winnowing of choice creation. My site is threefold, some > ideas are reflective almost immediately and they are mostly the well known > items, then there are original yet somewhat mainstream ideas that take awhile > for the dear readers to digest, and lastly there are outside the box ideas > that will take a good while to seek their level. It has been said that people > really don't fear change they do fear loss. And some ideas on my site > challenge a person's core beliefs and that's not necessarily a welcome thing > to many people. I on the other hand have changed my mind on some loooong held > beliefs this year both left and right, and believe I am better off for it. > > Cheers > Jon > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Richard Fobes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I gave 5 stars to the Ban Single Mark Ballots proposal. >> >> FYI, I did not post that proposal. Jon Denn posted the proposal using the >> executive summary he copied from the website copy of the Google Docs >> original. >> >> (I did work with Jon to post there a tax-reform proposal named "Tax The >> Takers More Than The Makers.") >> >> Based on the vote-counting method used at the site -- it uses score ballots >> -- I was tempted to vote one star for the "competing" "American >> Anti-Corruption Act." But I didn't. I gave it 5 stars too. >> >> This sheds light on a question someone else posed: Why aren't better voting >> methods actually used in small organizations? The choice of which method is >> "best" is not obvious. And when voting is done by people who understand how >> to vote strategically, the strategy-vulnerable methods -- in this case >> score-ballot-based counting -- easily produce unrepresentative results. >> >> Richard Fobes >> >> On 11/26/2012 10:02 AM, Jonathan Denn wrote: >>> United Republic has a new high profile attempt at change with the >>> American Anti-Corruption Act. Of course, it doesn't address Banning >>> Single Mark Ballots. On my site BSMB has an 83% approval rating which is >>> a weighted average of conservatives, independents, and liberals. While >>> this is a very good rating, even greater, it really needs to be up in >>> the 90s to get real notice. So, if you could take a few moments, go to >>> aGREATER.US <http://aGREATER.US>, sign up (it just takes a minute), >>> click on http://www.agreater.us/billpage.php?id=400 , and give it 5 >>> stars: I can then more confidently push this in my meetings and tweets. >>> Also, UR has some real juice, so if their folk come to rate AACA and >>> then hang out for awhile they may learn about (y)our efforts. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Jon >> >> >> ---- >> Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info >>
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