A common situation: 2 factions & 1 good compromise.
The goal: Make sure the compromise wins.
The problem: One of the 2 factions has a majority.
A concrete example: true ratings are
55 voters: A 100, C 80, B 0
45 voters: B 100, C 80, A 0
THE CHALLENGE: FIND A METHOD THAT WILL ELECT THE COM
At 01:32 AM 8/21/2007, Paul Kislanko wrote:
>Just to make myself clear here, to a voter a "utility" is something like the
>electric company, or the municipal water supplier. "Utilities" is a category
>of stocks traded on various exchanges.
>
>They have nothing to do with how we vote.
Ah, this is r
At 01:23 AM 8/21/2007, Paul Kislanko wrote:
>There is no such thing as "utility" to a voter. That is an abstraction used
>by analysts for which I have seen no definition that is useful to me, a
>voter, despite having pleaded for one on this list for at least three years
>now.
The term is widely us
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:59:49 -0400 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> At 10:48 PM 8/20/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
>
>>That's still pretty strange... What about IRV with equal rankings allowed?
>
WHAT do the vote counters do that maybe can claim equal strength for such
rankings, when others are not doin
Chris Benham wrote:
31: A>>B
32: B>>C
37: C>>A
Leaving aside the approval cutoffs, methods that don't elect C here
must fail mono-raise.
With these rankings and also C being the most approved candidate, for
me a method needs
a good excuse for not electing C.
DMC and also "Approval-Weighte
At 10:48 PM 8/20/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
>That's still pretty strange... What about IRV with equal rankings allowed?
Well, I suggested it long ago as a simple improvement. Voters can
essentially vote it as Approval if they want.
In an Approval election, if all the candidates you approve are no
Rob Richie, Executive Director of Center for Voting and Democracy,
will give presentations on IRV and Proportional Representation
tomorrow, Wednesday Aug 22 sometime between 1 and 4PM Mountain Time,
to the Colorado Voter Choice Task Force. It should be possible to hear
the proceedings over the Inte
