[Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

2008-04-19 Thread Fred Gohlke
Good Morning, Juho re: Good rules, voting methods etc. are there waiting to be discovered and generally approved. And that is what we are attempting in this discussion. We are trying to learn from our mistakes. We have no shortage of lessons, whether of ideologies suppressing ideologies,

[Election-Methods] Clone-related problems (was Re: Clone related problems in Range/Approval)

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Eppley
Hi, I agree with Mr. Lomax that parties' main purpose is to coordinate campaigns, if he means coordinating the *votes* by assembling a coalition large enough either to win or to elect a lesser evil compromise that defeats a greater evil. Given traditional plurality rule or top two runoff or