I don't believe that Range Voting will eliminate even the kind of
spoilers that IRV does away with. Consider two-candidate race between
Bush and Gore in which 51 voters prefer Gore to Bush and 49 prefer
Bush to Gore. Following the directions given on the RangeVoting.org
website, voters should give
Good Evening, Juho
re: ... where the political parties break out from their simple role as
groups of similar minded people and start exercising power outside of
the role originally planned for them.
That's close.
re: The problem thus is that since the votes in practice are not secret
bad
Good Evening, Dave
re: What the parties do is more a response to the structure of
government and the responsibilities of voters.
Can you describe these two points more clearly? Do not the party
leaders direct the parties actions? In what way(s) does the structure
of government affect them?
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:04:12 -0500 Fred Gohlke wrote:
Good Evening, Dave
re: What the parties do is more a response to the structure of
government and the responsibilities of voters.
Can you describe these two points more clearly? Do not the party
leaders direct the parties actions?
On Mar 16, 2008, at 19:20 , Greg @ Somerville for IRV wrote:
I don't believe that Range Voting will eliminate even the kind of
spoilers that IRV does away with.
Range sure has some weaknesses.
Consider two-candidate race between
Bush and Gore in which 51 voters prefer Gore to Bush and 49
On Mar 15, 2008, at 19:55 , Michael Rouse wrote:
I have one concern - the behaviour of the counting method with
clones. Let's multiply one of the candidates (A = A1 and A2). Then
we would have: 1: A1=10 A2=10 B=2 C=1 D=0 1: A1=10 A2=10 C=7 B=6 D=0
1: B=10 C=6 A1=5 A2=5 D=0 3: C=10 D=5 A1=1 A2=1
