[Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-04-13 Thread Fred Gohlke
And a cheerful Sunday Morning to you, Juho re: No need to have very strong opposing arguments ... Well, opposing arguments should be as strong as anyone can make them. Any weakness in an idea should be attacked and broken down rationally. Frequently, looking carefully at a weakness provides

[Election-Methods] Clone related problems in Range/Approval

2008-04-13 Thread Juho
Let's assume that the set of candidates consists of groups of clones. For example there can be multiple parties and each of these parties has multiple candidates. We further assume that typical voter preferences are such that they prefer all their own party candidates clearly over the